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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator claims to be doubted by which of the following (ll. 27-30)?
(a) She who knows the old wisdom.
(b) He who furnished commencement gowns.
(c) His own heart and mind.
(d) He who has tasted life’s joy in towns.

3. 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) Seafaring.
(b) Had.
(c) My.
(d) Endure.

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) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

5. The narrator describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?
(a) Casts called out to the crowd.
(b) Cares seethed hot around his heart.
(c) Carts heaped up with the harvest.
(d) Cars raced swiflty on the street.

Short Answer 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?

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

3. The narrator remarks that “That man does not know, / he whose lot is fairest on land, / how I, wretched with care, dwelt all winter / on the ice-cold sea in the paths of exile, / deprived of dear kinsmen, / hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers” (ll. 12-17). In the sentence, “I” is in apposition to which of the following?

4. The phrase “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth” (l. 32) offers an example of which of the following?

5. From which of the following does the narrator note the tern replies (l. 23)?

(see the answer key)

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