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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 remarks that “I heard nothing there but the noise of the sea” (l. 18). Relative stress / emphasis falls at the beginning of which words in the remark?
(a) Heard and noise.
(b) I and nothing.
(c) There and the.
(d) I and sea.

2. To which of the following does "his fleshly cloak" (l. 94) refer?
(a) Body.
(b) Skirt steak.
(c) Parchment.
(d) Bearskin rug.

3. In line 110, “steadfast in its promises, pure in its ways,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

4. The second sentence of the poem reads “Pinched with cold / were my feet, bound by frost / in cold fetters, while cares seethed / hot around my heart, hunger tore from within / my sea-weary mind” (ll. 8-12). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Pointillism.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Passant.
(d) Parallelism.

5. In l. 80, “delight among heaven’s host. The days are lost,” how many times is the alliteration iterated?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which of the following does "the greybeard" refer (l. 92)?

2. 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?

3. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered” (ll. 23-24). The passage offers an example of which of the following?

4. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?

5. The narrator claims to be doubted by which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

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