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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 58-102.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator claim is a gift that does not help against fear?
(a) Boldness.
(b) Girth.
(c) Youth.
(d) Grace.

2. What happens to the earth's nobility (l. 89)?
(a) It goes away.
(b) It increases.
(c) It withers.
(d) It eats.

3. Which of the following is NOT hanging "in the balance before its due time" (ll. 68-70)?
(a) Being put in prison.
(b) Illness.
(c) Age.
(d) Attack by the sword.

4. To what is the narrator's heart incited irresistibly (l. 63)?
(a) The ocean.
(b) The river.
(c) The lake.
(d) The well.

5. How often will the narrator believe in the endurance of physical things (ll. 66-67)?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) Once.
(c) Never.
(d) Always.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does the narrator remark a brother may wish to bury his brother (ll. 97-99)?

2. In the phrase “summer’s guardian announces sorrow” (l. 54), relative stress / emphasis DOES NOT fall on the first syllable of which of the following?

3. Whom does the narrator state might have something in store for a person (l. 43)?

4. To what does "be on his way" refer (l. 74)?

5. In line 28, “suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?

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