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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 103-124.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator describes the screaming eagle as which of the following (ll. 24-25)?
(a) Carrion-eating.
(b) Dewy-feathered.
(c) Sky-beautiful.
(d) Family-like.

2. What musician does the narrator claim to have heard (ll. 19-20)?
(a) The tame goose.
(b) The clucking chicken.
(c) The wild swan.
(d) The red cardinal.

3. Line 92, “the graybeard grieves; he knows his old friends,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Simile.

4. 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) Alliteration.
(b) Pentameter.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Rhyme.

5. Which of the following will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?
(a) Graves taking bodies.
(b) Groves taking blossom.
(c) Giraffes taking badgers.
(d) Birds taking flight.

Short Answer Questions

1. In l. 80, “delight among heaven’s host. The days are lost,” there is an example of which of the following?

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

3. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

4. 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?

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

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