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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 "salt streams" as which of the following (l. 35)?
(a) Seething.
(b) Tossing.
(c) Flowing.
(d) Churning.

2. Which of the following will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?
(a) Graves taking bodies.
(b) Birds taking flight.
(c) Giraffes taking badgers.
(d) Groves taking blossom.

3. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

4. What musician does the narrator claim to have heard (ll. 19-20)?
(a) The wild swan.
(b) The red cardinal.
(c) The tame goose.
(d) The clucking chicken.

5. In the phrase “were my feet, bound by frost” (l. 9), which of the following words receives relative stress / emphasis?
(a) Bound.
(b) Feet.
(c) My.
(d) Were.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator claims to be doubted by which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

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

3. What does the narrator claim is a gift that does not help against fear?

4. 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?

5. Which of the following does he have "who hastens to sea" (l. 47)?

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