Base Details Quizzes

Base Details Quiz

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?
Soldiers

Majors

War lovers

Generals
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?
Alfred Sassoon

Segfred Sassoon

Sigfried Sasson

Siegfried Sassoon
5 What sentiment is expressed in the poem?
Anti-war

War mongering

Hunger for power

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?
Free verse

Blank verse

Iambic pentameter

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

and I am asleep in bed

horrors fill my head

and youth stone dead
9 What qualities does the speaker imagine embodying in the first lines?
Fierce, bald, and short of breath

Guzzling and gulping

The ability to send soldiers up the lines

Scarlet
10 What collection was this poem published in?
Sequences

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

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 Declaration

A Soldier's Statement

A Soldier's Sentiment

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

Crimean War

Franco-Prussian War

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

Anti-War Sentiment

Satirizing Military Authority

The Inevitability of Death
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"?
I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead,

I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,

And speed glum heroes up the line to death.
16 What is the final twist at the end of the poem?
The majors also die

The majors drink wine

The soldiers return home

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

Organized and strong

Bottom and wonderful

Foundational and despicable
18 Why are the soldier's referred to as "glum heroes"?
They were drafted

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
19 Why did Sassoon receive a Military Cross?
For refusing to cease fighting

For bringing back a wounded soldier while under heavy fire

For sacrificing himself

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

Rupert Brooke

Robert Graves

Wilfred Owen
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 creates a steady rhythm reminiscent of marching

It sounds like footsteps

It has no impact

It sounds like a horse, reminiscent of a cavalry
23 Which is not an example of alliteration?
Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap.

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel

Reading the Roll of Honour

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

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

repeating, sonic units
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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