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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 103-124.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator report death will find the foolish person (l. 106)?
(a) Unprepared.
(b) Unaware.
(c) Underway.
(d) Unclothed.

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

3. In line 28, “suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) Few.
(b) Believes.
(c) Journeys.
(d) Sad.

4. In l. 80, “delight among heaven’s host. The days are lost,” how many times is the alliteration iterated?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

5. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?
(a) Pleasures of man.
(b) Pleasures of woman.
(c) Pleasures of food.
(d) Pleasures of sleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 44, “He has no thought of the harp or the taking of rings,” there is an example of which of the following?

2. Line 66, “loaned, on land. I will never believe,” offers an example of which of the following?

3. The narrator remarks that "The joys of the Lord than this dead life" are which of the following (ll. 64-65)?

4. Which of the following renamings does the narrator give "the Holy One" (ll. 121-14)?

5. The narrator describes his doubter as which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

(see the answer key)

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