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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the phrase “summer’s guardian announces sorrow” (l. 54), relative stress / emphasis DOES NOT fall on the first syllable of which of the following?
(a) Guardian.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Announces.
(d) Summer's.

2. The narrator remarks he "heard nothing there but the noise of” which of the following (l. 18)?
(a) Music.
(b) The sea.
(c) Mead-drink.
(d) The laughter of men.

3. The narrator notes that which of the following darkened (l. 31)?
(a) The night-shadow.
(b) The swift winds.
(c) The new moon.
(d) The day-walker.

4. The narrator remarks that “the wild swan’s song / sometimes served as my music, the gannet’s call / and the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men, / the seagull’s singing for mead-drink” (ll. 19-22). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Carcinization.
(b) Superposition.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Justification.

5. Which of the following will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?
(a) Cities darken.
(b) Forests brighten.
(c) Fields darken.
(d) Fields brighten.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes the "salt streams" as which of the following (l. 35)?

2. 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?

3. The phrase “in days of toil / I’ve often suffered troubled times, / hard heartache” (ll. 2-4) offers examples of which of the following?

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?

5. Which of the following will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?

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