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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Endure.
(b) Seafaring.
(c) My.
(d) Had.

2. Which of the following does the narrator bid the audience to consider (l. 117-18)?
(a) How to get money.
(b) How to get home.
(c) How to get in trouble.
(d) How to get skilled.

3. The narrator describes which of the following as his thinking part (l. 34)?
(a) Heart.
(b) Belly.
(c) Head.
(d) Buttocks.

4. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?
(a) The pipe.
(b) The horn.
(c) The drum.
(d) The harp.

5. To what does the phrase “summer’s guardian" refer (l. 54)?
(a) Eagle.
(b) Cuckoo.
(c) Egret.
(d) Crow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the narrator claim is beaten by bold deeds (l. 76)?

2. Which of the following does the narrator ascribe to the terror of God (l. 103)?

3. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?

4. To what end does the narrator note he is driven (ll. 36-38)?

5. In the phrase “to try for myself” (l. 34), relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?

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