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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Per the narrator, what "is the best eulogy" (ll. 72-73)?
(a) The praise of posterity.
(b) The piles of plenty.
(c) The largest grave-marker.
(d) The sturdiest statue.

2. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?
(a) Pleasures of food.
(b) Pleasures of sleep.
(c) Pleasures of man.
(d) Pleasures of woman.

3. The phrase “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth” (l. 32) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Rhyme.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Pun.
(d) Euphemism.

4. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?
(a) Piles of silver.
(b) Sadness and sorrow.
(c) The tumbling waves.
(d) Joy in the world.

5. In l. 70, “illness or age or attack by the sword,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) By.
(b) The.
(c) Attack.
(d) Sword.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is NOT hanging "in the balance before its due time" (ll. 68-70)?

3. The phrase “that before he must be on his way, he act” (l. 74) offers an example of which of the following?

4. Where does the narrator claim to stand (l. 90)?

5. In line 30, “have often had to endure in my seafaring,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?

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