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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 39-57.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Which of the following will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?
(a) Cities grow hair.
(b) Cities grow fair.
(c) People grow fair.
(d) Cities are there.

5. 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?
(a) Proposition.
(b) Opposition.
(c) Supposition.
(d) Apposition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?

2. What musician does the narrator claim to have heard (ll. 19-20)?

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

4. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” offers an example of which of the following?

5. 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?

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