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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) Groves taking blossom.
(b) Graves taking bodies.
(c) Giraffes taking badgers.
(d) Birds taking flight.

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

3. The narrator notes suffering in which of the following (ll. 27-30)?
(a) Sunbathing.
(b) Shackling.
(c) Seafaring.
(d) Ceasing.

4. Which of the following does the narrator link to the noise of the sea (ll. 18-19)?
(a) The leaping dolphins.
(b) The rolling tide.
(c) The ice-cold waves.
(d) The surging surf.

5. What has the fallen noble host lost (l. 86)?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Tacos.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Hunger.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The phrase “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth” (l. 32) offers an example of which of the following?

3. The narrator remarks that “That man does not know, / he whose lot is fairest on land, / how I, wretched with care, dwelt all winter / on the ice-cold sea in the paths of exile, / deprived of dear kinsmen, / hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers” (ll. 12-17). The sentence offers an example 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. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” offers an example of which of the following?

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