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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Per the narrator, what "is the best eulogy" (ll. 72-73)?
(a) The piles of plenty.
(b) The sturdiest statue.
(c) The praise of posterity.
(d) The largest grave-marker.

2. 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) Pointillism.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Passant.

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

4. Line 66, “loaned, on land. I will never believe,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Enjambment.
(b) Enthrallment.
(c) End-stop.
(d) Ensorcellment.

5. What happens to the earth's nobility (l. 89)?
(a) It increases.
(b) It eats.
(c) It goes away.
(d) It withers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator remarks that none “could bring consolation to my desolate soul” (l. 26). How many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are in the line?

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

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

5. 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?

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