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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

2. 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) Opposition.
(d) Supposition.

3. The narrator describes his thoughts as doing which of the following (ll. 33-34)?
(a) Forbid him.
(b) Dissuade him.
(c) Suggest to him.
(d) Compel him.

4. Which of the following does the narrator assert is true of “he whose lot is fairest on land” (ll. 12-13)?
(a) He protects and attacks.
(b) He does not know.
(c) He does not care.
(d) He just complains.

5. From which of the following does the narrator note the tern replies (l. 23)?
(a) Solemn graves.
(b) Stone cliffs.
(c) Ship's stem.
(d) Standing trees.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the sentence “And so he who has tasted life’s joy in towns, / suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes, / proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary, / have often had to endure in my seafaring” (ll. 27-30), which of the following does NOT describe the “he” upon whom the narrator remarks?

3. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

4. 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?

5. The narrator describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?

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