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

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) Periphrasis.
(b) Paraprosdokian.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Accumulation.

3. In the second quatrain of the second stanza, what becomes clear about the speaker's state of mind?
(a) He has not fully accepted the captain's death.
(b) He is actually asleep and only dreaming of the captain's death.
(c) He hopes to hide the captain's death from the crowd.
(d) He is afraid that he is in some way responsible for the captain's death.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What feature of the Captain's face does line 17 focus on?

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

3. Who is the speaker of the poem?

4. In context, the word "fearful" in line 1 indicates that the trip was which of the following?

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

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