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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 58-102.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What “hangs in the balance before its due time" (ll. 68-69)?
(a) One thing.
(b) One of three things.
(c) One of two things.
(d) One of five things.

2. Which of the following came from the north (l. 31)?
(a) Rain.
(b) Snow.
(c) Wind.
(d) Attack.

3. The descriptor “greedy and hungry” (l. 62) modifies which of the following?
(a) The sea-flood.
(b) My spirit.
(c) Me.
(d) My breast.

4. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?
(a) The tumbling waves.
(b) Joy in the world.
(c) Sadness and sorrow.
(d) Piles of silver.

5. In l. 80, “delight among heaven’s host. The days are lost,” there is an example of which of the following?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Enjambment.
(c) End-stop.
(d) Enthrallment.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the narrator claim to stand (l. 90)?

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?

4. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?

5. The narrator describes the screaming eagle as which of the following (ll. 24-25)?

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