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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 crying out in grief.
(b) They are quietly watchful.
(c) They are cheering excitedly.
(d) They are drinking and celebrating.

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

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

4. What type of rhyme is employed in line 20, "From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won"?
(a) Identical rhyme.
(b) Near rhyme.
(c) Eye rhyme.
(d) Internal rhyme.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the most common type of metrical foot in "O Captain! My Captain!"?

3. Which details in the second stanza evoke a patriotic occasion?

4. The list of ways the crowd is celebrating the arrival of the ship in lines 9-12 is an example of which technique?

5. The poem's title and first line contain an example of which technique?

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