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1 Which of the following best describes the speaker?

Someone who actively dislikes military authority

Someone who wishes he was a military authority

Someone who hints at disliking military authority

A soldier
2 Who is being satirized in the poem?

Generals

Majors

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 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 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
4 What is the poet's name?

Sigfried Sasson

Segfred Sassoon

Alfred Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon
5 What sentiment is expressed in the poem?

War mongering

Hunger for power

Anti-war

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

1, 8

2, 8

2, 10

1, 10
7 What is the poem's meter?

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Blank verse

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?

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?

Sequences

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
11 What document led to Sassoon's treatment for shell shock?

A Soldier's Sentiment

A Soldier's Statement

A Soldier's Declaration

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

Crimean War

World War One

World War Two

Franco-Prussian 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 their overindulgence, their responsibilities, 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 uniforms, their overindulgence, 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.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead,

I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,

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

The soldiers return home

The soldiers are stone dead

The majors also die

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

Organized and strong

Foundational and despicable

Beginning and guitar

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

Unspecified, but presumably because they have meager rations

They were drafted

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

They are unwilling to fight
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?

August Stramm

Wilfred Owen

Robert Graves

Rupert Brooke
21 Which line disrupts the pattern of iambic pentameter?

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;

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

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

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel

my puffy petulant face,
24 What is alliteration?

(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

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 are disillusioned by the death caused by war

That the majors also fought in battle

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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