Base Details Quizzes

Base Details Quiz

1 Which of the following best describes the speaker?
Someone who actively dislikes military authority

Someone who wishes he was a military authority

A soldier

Someone who hints at disliking military authority
2 Who is being satirized in the poem?
Majors

Generals

Soldiers

War lovers
3 What is satirization?
the use of bitterness to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of personal issues

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of personal issues

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues

the use of bitterness to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues
4 What is the poet's name?
Segfred Sassoon

Alfred Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon

Sigfried Sasson
5 What sentiment is expressed in the poem?
Pacifist

Hunger for power

War mongering

Anti-war
6 How many stanzas are in the poem? How many lines?
1, 10

2, 8

1, 8

2, 10
7 What is the poem's meter?
Free verse

Iambic tetrameter

Blank verse

Iambic pentameter
8 Finish this quote: "And when the war is done _____"
and I am asleep in bed

and the young are dead

and youth stone dead

horrors fill my head
9 What qualities does the speaker imagine embodying in the first lines?
Guzzling and gulping

Scarlet

The ability to send soldiers up the lines

Fierce, bald, and short of breath
10 What collection was this poem published in?
Sequences

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Counter-Attack and Other Poems
11 What document led to Sassoon's treatment for shell shock?
A Soldier's Declaration

A Soldier's Letter

A Soldier's Statement

A Soldier's Sentiment
12 Which war does this poem allude to?
World War One

Franco-Prussian War

World War Two

Crimean War
13 Which of the following is NOT a theme?
Anti-War Sentiment

Celebration of Returning Soldiers

Satirizing Military Authority

The Inevitability of Death
14 Why are the majors referred to as scarlet?
The color possibly references the soldiers' uniforms and the responsibility the majors have for human life

The color possibly references their uniforms, their overindulgence, and the blood on their hands

The color possibly references their overindulgence, their responsibilities, and the blood on their hands

The color references their taste for red wine, compared to the thirst and starvation experienced by the soldiers
15 Which quote best expresses the theme "The Inevitability of Death"?
And when the war is done and youth stone dead,

I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,

And speed glum heroes up the line to death.

I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.
16 What is the final twist at the end of the poem?
The majors also die

The majors drink wine

The soldiers return home

The soldiers are stone dead
17 What is the double meaning of "base"?
Beginning and guitar

Foundational and despicable

Organized and strong

Bottom and wonderful
18 Why are the soldier's referred to as "glum heroes"?
Unspecified, but presumably because they have already experienced or heard about the horrors of war

Unspecified, but presumably because they have meager rations

They were drafted

They are unwilling to fight
19 Why did Sassoon receive a Military Cross?
For refusing to cease fighting

For sacrificing himself

For bringing back a wounded soldier while under heavy fire

He did not receive this award
20 Which fellow soldier-poet interceded on Sassoon's behalf when he sent his declaration?
Wilfred Owen

August Stramm

Robert Graves

Rupert Brooke
21 Which line disrupts the pattern of iambic pentameter?
Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap."

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel

And speed glum heroes up the line to death

I'd say—"I used to know his father well;
22 What effect does iambic pentameter have in the poem?
It sounds like a horse, reminiscent of a cavalry

It sounds like footsteps

It creates a steady rhythm reminiscent of marching

It has no impact
23 Which is not an example of alliteration?
Reading the Roll of Honour

Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap.

my puffy petulant face,

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel
24 What is alliteration?
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

repeating, sonic units

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

(of a word, syllable, or line) have or end with a sound that corresponds to another
25 What is the implication of the major's passing comments?
That the majors have been personally impacted by the war

That the majors have no respect for the lives of the soldiers

That the majors also fought in battle

That the majors are disillusioned by the death caused by war

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