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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Attack.
(b) Sword.
(c) The.
(d) By.

2. In l. 85, “and lived in most lordly fame,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

3. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” is a descriptor meaning which of the following?
(a) Heavyset.
(b) Obtuse.
(c) Intoxicated.
(d) Exultant.

4. Which of the following does the narrator note is a favorable state (ll. 39-43)?
(a) Beloved of his brewer.
(b) Beloved of his boys and girls.
(c) Beloved of his lord.
(d) Beloved of his spouse.

5. Line 67, “that earthly goods will endure forever,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Entrepreneurship.
(b) Endemic.
(c) Enjambment.
(d) End-stop.

Short Answer Questions

1. The phrase “roams widely over the whale’s home” (l. 60) offers an example of which of the following?

2. Per the narrator, what must a man do "before he must be on his way" (ll. 74-79)?

3. 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?

4. In line 35, “the high seas, the tossing salt streams,” how many times is the alliteration iterated?

5. Line 83, “nor gold-gives as there once were,” offers an example of which of the following?

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