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

2. Who is the speaker of the poem?
(a) A writer.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A sailor.
(d) A soldier.

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

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

5. Line 4, "While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring," contains examples of which techniques?
(a) Simie and alliteration.
(b) Alliteration and synecdoche.
(c) Personification and simile.
(d) Synecdoche and personification.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does it mean that the people are "exulting"?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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