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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. Who is the author of "O Captain! my Captain!"?
(a) William Cullen Bryant.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

2. What feature of the Captain's face does line 17 focus on?
(a) His brow.
(b) His mouth.
(c) His eyes.
(d) His chin.

3. Which term describes the poem's repeated use of the phrases "O Captain! My Captain!" (lines 1 and 9) and "fallen cold and dead" (lines 8, 16, and 24)?
(a) Verse.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Chorus.
(d) Refrain.

4. Line 6, "O the bleeding drops of red," is an example of which technique?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Conceit.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the second quatrain of the second stanza, what becomes clear about the speaker's state of mind?

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

3. What does the phrase "swaying mass" refer to (line 12)?

4. Line 4, "While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring," contains examples of which techniques?

5. Where is the ship in the beginning of the poem?

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