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- 1. Multiple Choice
What are veterans?
Veterans are people who are active soldiers.
Veterans are people who have served in the military in the past.
Veterans is a word used to describe anyone.
Veterans are people who died in a war.
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is a generation of people?
A generation is all people around the world born at the same time.
A generation is all soldiers.
A generation is all people around the world.
A generation is another name for a veteran.
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is the meaning of the literary word "tone"?
Tone is the author's attitude toward a subject.
Tone is a soldier.
Tone is the reader’s attitude toward a subject.
Tone is another word for generation.
- 4. Multiple Choice
In this poem, who does the author say are the true heroes?
All living soldiers are the true heroes.
All soldiers ever born are the true heroes.
Those who died in the war are the true heroes.
None of these.
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is "repetition" in a poem?
Repetition is a soldier who died in a battle.
Repetition is repeating words, phrases, or lines in a poem.
Repetition is someone who has served in the military.
Repetition is all people born around the same time.
- 6. Multiple Choice
What phrase does Aitchison choose to repeat in this poem?
"In the years that pass."
"When you see the medals that I wear,"
"Do not call me a hero."
"I left a lad, returned a man,"
- 7. Multiple Choice
Why did Aitchison choose to repeat the same sentence in the poem?
to show generations
to make the poem have rhythm
to show love for the dead
to emphasize important ideas
- 8. Multiple Choice
What is the tone in this sentence? "I pulled off some lame disco dance moves that sent the place into hysterics."
fearful
serious
humorous
angry
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is the tone of this sentence? "Their mission was to free Europe from the brutal German dictator, Adolph Hitler. "I was numb with fear of what I was about to encounter," Alvarado recalled.
fearful
serious
humorous
angry
- 10. Multiple Choice
What is the tone in this sentence? "The 320th earned a letter of commendation from General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Additional individual awards were given to some of the unit's soldiers. War historians note that one man in the 320th distinguished himself above many others."
fearful
serious
humorous
angry
- 11. Multiple Choice
What is the tone and meaning of this sentence? "Medals maketh not the hero."
The tone is humorous. It means that having a medal for self-sacrifice at war is funny.
The tone is serious. It means that having a medal does not make a soldier a hero.
The tone is fearful. It means that having a medal is scary.
The tone is angry. It means that the soldiers did not want medals.
- 12. Multiple Choice
What is the tone and meaning of this sentence? "The blood, the fears, the cries, the tears/We left them where they fell."
The words "blood" and "cries" are powerful because they tell about the harsh realities of war.
The words "fears" and "left" are powerful because they tell how afraid soldiers were.
The words "cries" and "where" are powerful because they tell what the soldiers did.
The words "fears" and "they" are powerful because they tell who was afraid.
- 13. Multiple Choice
In "Longest Day," the poet uses a ____ tone to express a meaning about his grandfather.
concerned
happy
serious
angry
- 14. Multiple Choice
The phrases ____ and ____ help create this tone.
"Medals maketh not the hero" AND "they just prove that I was there"
"In the years that pass" AND "For all the real true heroes"
"When we ran the wall of hail" AND "In the years that pass"
""Now that I am old and grey" AND "Each night I stop and pray"
- 15. Multiple Choice
The author's grandfather did not want to be called a hero because _________ and ____________.
He was modest and he believed that true heroes died on the battlefield.
He didn't get a medal. He only got a commendation letter.
He went their as a lad and left a man.
He was angry that the Germans won the war and he did not get a medal.
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