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1 Which of the following best describes the speaker?

Someone who hints at disliking military authority

Someone who actively dislikes military authority

Someone who wishes he was a military authority

A soldier
2 Who is being satirized in the poem?

Soldiers

Generals

Majors

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 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 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

War mongering

Pacifist
6 How many stanzas are in the poem? How many lines?

1, 8

1, 10

2, 8

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

Free verse

Blank verse

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter
8 Finish this quote: "And when the war is done _____"

and I am asleep in bed

and youth stone dead

horrors fill my head

and the young are dead
9 What qualities does the speaker imagine embodying in the first lines?

Scarlet

The ability to send soldiers up the lines

Guzzling and gulping

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

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

Sequences

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
11 What document led to Sassoon's treatment for shell shock?

A Soldier's Sentiment

A Soldier's Declaration

A Soldier's Statement

A Soldier's Letter
12 Which war does this poem allude to?

Franco-Prussian War

Crimean War

World War One

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

Anti-War Sentiment

Satirizing Military Authority

Celebration of Returning Soldiers

The Inevitability of Death
14 Why are the majors referred to as scarlet?

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

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
15 Which quote best expresses the theme "The Inevitability of Death"?

I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,

And when the war is done and youth stone dead,

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 soldiers are stone dead

The majors drink wine

The soldiers return home

The majors also die
17 What is the double meaning of "base"?

Foundational and despicable

Bottom and wonderful

Organized and strong

Beginning and guitar
18 Why are the soldier's referred to as "glum heroes"?

They were drafted

Unspecified, but presumably because they have meager rations

They are unwilling to fight

Unspecified, but presumably because they have already experienced or heard about the horrors of war
19 Why did Sassoon receive a Military Cross?

He did not receive this award

For refusing to cease fighting

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?

Rupert Brooke

Wilfred Owen

August Stramm

Robert Graves
21 Which line disrupts the pattern of iambic pentameter?

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

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

And speed glum heroes up the line to death

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel
22 What effect does iambic pentameter have in the poem?

It sounds like footsteps

It creates a steady rhythm reminiscent of marching

It sounds like a horse, reminiscent of a cavalry

It has no impact
23 Which is not an example of alliteration?

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

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel

my puffy petulant face,

Reading the Roll of Honour
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.

(of a word, syllable, or line) have or end with a sound that corresponds to another

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
25 What is the implication of the major's passing comments?

That the majors also fought in battle

That the majors are disillusioned by the death caused by war

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

That the majors have been personally impacted by the war

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