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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In line 17, “hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 4
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

3. 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?
(a) There and the.
(b) I and sea.
(c) Heard and noise.
(d) I and nothing.

4. Which of the following is NOT hanging "in the balance before its due time" (ll. 68-70)?
(a) Attack by the sword.
(b) Being put in prison.
(c) Illness.
(d) Age.

5. 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) 3.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator describe as urging his spirit onwards (l. 36)?

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

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

5. What happens to the earth's nobility (l. 89)?

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