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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. By which other term, besides "Captain," does the speaker address the captain of the ship?
(a) Leader.
(b) Brother.
(c) Father.
(d) Master.

2. What does the phrase "swaying mass" refer to (line 12)?
(a) The ship.
(b) The captain.
(c) The flag.
(d) The crowd.

3. Which technique is evident in the phrase "for you the flag is flung" (line 10)?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Sibilance.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Cacophony.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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)?

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