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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 hints at disliking military authority

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

Generals

Majors

Soldiers

War lovers
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?

Pacifist

Hunger for power

War mongering

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

2, 10

1, 8

1, 10

2, 8
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 _____"

horrors fill my head

and I am asleep in bed

and the young are dead

and youth stone dead
9 What qualities does the speaker imagine embodying in the first lines?

Fierce, bald, and short of breath

The ability to send soldiers up the lines

Guzzling and gulping

Scarlet
10 What collection was this poem published in?

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Sequences

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

A Soldier's Letter

A Soldier's Sentiment

A Soldier's Statement

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

World War Two

Crimean War

World War One

Franco-Prussian War
13 Which of the following is NOT a theme?

Anti-War Sentiment

The Inevitability of Death

Celebration of Returning Soldiers

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

And speed glum heroes up the line to death.

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

I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,

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

The majors drink wine

The soldiers are stone dead

The majors also die

The soldiers return home
17 What is the double meaning of "base"?

Organized and strong

Bottom and wonderful

Foundational and despicable

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

They are unwilling to fight

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
19 Why did Sassoon receive a Military Cross?

For sacrificing himself

He did not receive this award

For bringing back a wounded soldier while under heavy fire

For refusing to cease fighting
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?

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."

I'd say—"I used to know his father well;
22 What effect does iambic pentameter have in the poem?

It creates a steady rhythm reminiscent of marching

It sounds like a horse, reminiscent of a cavalry

It has no impact

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

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel

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

Reading the Roll of Honour

my puffy petulant face,
24 What is alliteration?

repeating, sonic units

(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.

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 have no respect for the lives of the soldiers

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

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