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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 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Proposition.
(b) Apposition.
(c) Supposition.
(d) Opposition.

2. The narrator notes a lack of which of the following (ll. 25-26)?
(a) Consolation.
(b) Integration.
(c) Confirmation.
(d) Isolation.

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

4. In the phrase “to try for myself” (l. 34), relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) To.
(b) Try.
(c) Myself.
(d) For.

5. In line 28, “suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) Sad.
(b) Few.
(c) Journeys.
(d) Believes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes hail as which of the following (ll. 32-33)?

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

3. 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?

4. In line 17, “hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

5. Which of the following does the narrator assert is true of “he whose lot is fairest on land” (ll. 12-13)?

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