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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. 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.

2. The list of ways the crowd is celebrating the arrival of the ship in lines 9-12 is an example of which technique?
(a) Paraprosdokian.
(b) Understatement.
(c) Accumulation.
(d) Periphrasis.

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

4. What is a "keel" (line 4)?
(a) A measurement of the speed a ship is traveling.
(b) The central and largest sail on a three-masted ship.
(c) A part of a ship's steering mechanism, found at the back of the ship.
(d) A flat structure at the bottom of a ship, designed to add stability.

5. What is the rhyme pattern of the first four lines of each stanza?
(a) ABBA.
(b) ABAC.
(c) AABB.
(d) ABCB.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of rhyme is employed in line 20, "From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won"?

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

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

4. Which is the best interpretation of line 9, when the speaker urges "O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells"?

5. What is the most accurate way to describe the poem's stanza form?

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