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1 Which of the following best describes the speaker?

Someone who wishes he was a military authority

A soldier

Someone who actively dislikes military authority

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

War lovers

Majors

Soldiers

Generals
3 What is satirization?

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 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

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of personal issues
4 What is the poet's name?

Sigfried Sasson

Alfred Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon

Segfred Sassoon
5 What sentiment is expressed in the poem?

Hunger for power

War mongering

Anti-war

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

2, 10

1, 10

1, 8

2, 8
7 What is the poem's meter?

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Free verse

Blank verse
8 Finish this quote: "And when the war is done _____"

horrors fill my head

and the young are dead

and youth stone dead

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

Fierce, bald, and short of breath

Guzzling and gulping

Scarlet
10 What collection was this poem published in?

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

Sequences

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
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 Two

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

The Inevitability of Death

Celebration of Returning Soldiers

Anti-War Sentiment

Satirizing Military Authority
14 Why are the majors referred to as scarlet?

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

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 possibly references their overindulgence, their responsibilities, and the blood on their hands
15 Which quote best expresses the theme "The Inevitability of Death"?

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

And when the war is done and youth stone dead,

And speed glum heroes up the line to death.

I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,
16 What is the final twist at the end of the poem?

The majors drink wine

The majors also die

The soldiers return home

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

Bottom and wonderful

Foundational and despicable

Beginning and guitar

Organized and strong
18 Why are the soldier's referred to as "glum heroes"?

They are unwilling to fight

They were drafted

Unspecified, but presumably because they have meager rations

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

For sacrificing himself

For bringing back a wounded soldier while under heavy fire

For refusing to cease fighting

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

Rupert Brooke

Robert Graves

Wilfred Owen

August Stramm
21 Which line disrupts the pattern of iambic pentameter?

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

And speed glum heroes up the line to death

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel

Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap."
22 What effect does iambic pentameter have in the poem?

It has no impact

It creates a steady rhythm reminiscent of marching

It sounds like a horse, reminiscent of a cavalry

It sounds like footsteps
23 Which is not an example of alliteration?

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

Reading the Roll of Honour

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel

my puffy petulant face,
24 What is alliteration?

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

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

repeating, sonic units
25 What is the implication of the major's passing comments?

That the majors also fought in battle

That the majors have been personally impacted by the war

That the majors are disillusioned by the death caused by war

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

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