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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 does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?
(a) The pipe.
(b) The horn.
(c) The drum.
(d) The harp.

2. Line 92, “the graybeard grieves; he knows his old friends,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Allegory.

3. Which of the following does the narrator assert is true of “he whose lot is fairest on land” (ll. 12-13)?
(a) He does not know.
(b) He just complains.
(c) He does not care.
(d) He protects and attacks.

4. 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.

5. Per the narrator, what must a man do "before he must be on his way" (ll. 74-79)?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Eat.
(c) Pack.
(d) Act.

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” offers an example of which of the following?

2. In the line “my spirit moves with the sea-flood” (l. 59), how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

3. The phrase “that before he must be on his way, he act” (l. 74) offers an example of which of the following?

4. The narrator comments about “the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men” (l. 21). The comment offers an example of which of the following?

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

(see the answer key)

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