Base Details Quizzes

Base Details Quiz

1 Which of the following best describes the speaker?
Someone who hints at disliking military authority

Someone who wishes he was a military authority

Someone who actively dislikes military authority

A soldier
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 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 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
4 What is the poet's name?
Alfred Sassoon

Segfred Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon

Sigfried Sasson
5 What sentiment is expressed in the poem?
Pacifist

War mongering

Anti-war

Hunger for power
6 How many stanzas are in the poem? How many lines?
1, 8

2, 10

1, 10

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

Iambic pentameter

Blank verse

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

and I am asleep in bed

and the young are dead

horrors fill my head
9 What qualities does the speaker imagine embodying in the first lines?
Guzzling and gulping

Fierce, bald, and short of breath

Scarlet

The ability to send soldiers up the lines
10 What collection was this poem published in?
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Sequences

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

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?
World War One

Franco-Prussian War

Crimean War

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

Celebration of Returning Soldiers

The Inevitability of Death

Anti-War Sentiment
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 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
15 Which quote best expresses the theme "The Inevitability of Death"?
I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,

And speed glum heroes up the line to death.

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 drink wine

The soldiers are stone dead

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

Organized and strong

Beginning and guitar

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 sacrificing himself

For bringing back a wounded soldier while under heavy fire
20 Which fellow soldier-poet interceded on Sassoon's behalf when he sent his declaration?
Robert Graves

Rupert Brooke

August Stramm

Wilfred Owen
21 Which line disrupts the pattern of iambic pentameter?
And speed glum heroes up the line to death

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

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel

I'd say—"I used to know his father well;
22 What effect does iambic pentameter have in the poem?
It sounds like a horse, reminiscent of a cavalry

It has no impact

It creates a steady rhythm reminiscent of marching

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

my puffy petulant face,

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel
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 are disillusioned by the death caused by war

That the majors have been personally impacted by the war

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

That the majors also fought in battle

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