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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 27-38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator remarks that none “could bring consolation to my desolate soul” (l. 26). How many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are in the line?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

2. The narrator comments about “the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men” (l. 21). The comment offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Pentameter.

3. The narrator remarks that “the wild swan’s song / sometimes served as my music, the gannet’s call / and the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men, / the seagull’s singing for mead-drink” (ll. 19-22). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Carcinization.
(b) Superposition.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Justification.

4. How many stressed / emphasized syllables occur in the opening comment of the poem, “I sing a true song of myself” (l. 1)?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

5. In line 35, “the high seas, the tossing salt streams,” how many times is the alliteration iterated?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The narrator describes his doubter as which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

3. Which of the following came from the north (l. 31)?

4. The narrator notes suffering in which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

5. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?

(see the answer key)

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