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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the phrase “to try for myself” (l. 34), relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) To.
(b) Myself.
(c) For.
(d) Try.

3. The narrator describes his thoughts as doing which of the following (ll. 33-34)?
(a) Suggest to him.
(b) Compel him.
(c) Dissuade him.
(d) Forbid him.

4. Whom does the narrator state might have something in store for a person (l. 43)?
(a) Nobody.
(b) The Lord.
(c) The Lady.
(d) The devil.

5. In line 44, “He has no thought of the harp or the taking of rings,” there is an example of which of the following?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Simile.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who remains to rule the world (l. 87)?

3. In line 55, “bitter in the breast-hoard. He does not know,” which of the following is present?

4. In l. 102, “the gold he had hidden while he lived here on earth,” how many times is the DOMINANT alliteration iterated?

5. What “hangs in the balance before its due time" (ll. 68-69)?

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