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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In the line “my spirit moves with the sea-flood” (l. 59), how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

4. Per the narrator, what "is the best eulogy" (ll. 72-73)?
(a) The sturdiest statue.
(b) The praise of posterity.
(c) The piles of plenty.
(d) The largest grave-marker.

5. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?
(a) Pox and penury.
(b) Troubled times.
(c) Righteous wrath.
(d) Sweet surrender.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator comments "the curlew’s cry ” which of the following (l. 21)?

3. In the phrase “nor so bold in deeds, nor so beloved of his lord” (l. 41), how many times is the alliteration iterated?

4. In the phrase “summer’s guardian announces sorrow” (l. 54), which of the following is present?

5. In line 115, “on a funeral pyre. Fate is greater,” an example is offered of which of the following?

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