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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "O Captain! My Captain!" lines 1-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does it mean that the people are "exulting"?
(a) They are drinking and celebrating.
(b) They are cheering excitedly.
(c) They are crying out in grief.
(d) They are quietly watchful.

2. Which technique is evident in line 10, "Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills"?
(a) Antistrophe.
(b) Antimetabole.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Anaphora.

3. What is the most accurate way to describe the poem's stanza form?
(a) Double quatrain.
(b) Sestet.
(c) Double tercet.
(d) Octave.

4. What is the most common type of metrical foot in "O Captain! My Captain!"?
(a) The iamb.
(b) The dactyl.
(c) The spondee.
(d) The trochee.

5. Where is the ship in the beginning of the poem?
(a) Just leaving the port.
(b) On the open sea.
(c) Just coming into port.
(d) Docked in the port.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which technique is evident in the phrase "for you the flag is flung" (line 10)?

2. Line 5, " But O heart! heart! heart!" is an example of which technique?

3. In context, the literal meaning of the word "rack" in line two is which of the following?

4. What is the rhyme pattern of the first four lines of each stanza?

5. What is a "keel" (line 4)?

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