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Base Details Quiz

1 Which of the following best describes the speaker?
Someone who wishes he was a military authority

Someone who hints at disliking military authority

A soldier

Someone who actively dislikes military authority
2 Who is being satirized in the poem?
War lovers

Generals

Majors

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

Segfred Sassoon

Alfred Sassoon

Sigfried Sasson
5 What sentiment is expressed in the poem?
Anti-war

Hunger for power

Pacifist

War mongering
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?
Blank verse

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Free verse
8 Finish this quote: "And when the war is done _____"
and youth stone dead

and the young are dead

horrors fill my head

and I am asleep in bed
9 What qualities does the speaker imagine embodying in the first lines?
The ability to send soldiers up the lines

Scarlet

Guzzling and gulping

Fierce, bald, and short of breath
10 What collection was this poem published in?
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Sequences

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

A Soldier's Statement

A Soldier's Letter

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

Franco-Prussian War

Crimean War

World War Two
13 Which of the following is NOT a theme?
Celebration of Returning Soldiers

Anti-War Sentiment

The Inevitability of Death

Satirizing Military Authority
14 Why are the majors referred to as scarlet?
The color possibly references their uniforms, their overindulgence, and the blood on their hands

The color possibly references the soldiers' uniforms and the responsibility the majors have for human life

The color references their taste for red wine, compared to the thirst and starvation experienced by the soldiers

The color possibly references their overindulgence, their responsibilities, and the blood on their hands
15 Which quote best expresses the theme "The Inevitability of Death"?
And speed glum heroes up the line to death.

I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,

I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead,
16 What is the final twist at the end of the poem?
The soldiers return home

The majors also die

The soldiers are stone dead

The majors drink wine
17 What is the double meaning of "base"?
Organized and strong

Beginning and guitar

Foundational and despicable

Bottom and wonderful
18 Why are the soldier's referred to as "glum heroes"?
They are unwilling to fight

Unspecified, but presumably because they have meager rations

Unspecified, but presumably because they have already experienced or heard about the horrors of war

They were drafted
19 Why did Sassoon receive a Military Cross?
For refusing to cease fighting

He did not receive this award

For bringing back a wounded soldier while under heavy fire

For sacrificing himself
20 Which fellow soldier-poet interceded on Sassoon's behalf when he sent his declaration?
August Stramm

Robert Graves

Wilfred Owen

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

I'd say—"I used to know his father well;

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel

And speed glum heroes up the line to death
22 What effect does iambic pentameter have in the poem?
It sounds like footsteps

It has no impact

It sounds like a horse, reminiscent of a cavalry

It creates a steady rhythm reminiscent of marching
23 Which is not an example of alliteration?
Reading the Roll of Honour

my puffy petulant face,

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel

Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap.
24 What is alliteration?
repeating, sonic units

the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

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 no respect for the lives of the soldiers

That the majors are disillusioned by the death caused by war

That the majors also fought in battle

That the majors have been personally impacted by the war

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