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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the phrase “he always has longing who hastens to sea” (l. 47), how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

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

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

4. By which of the following does the narrator state a friend might be consumed (ll. 114-15)?
(a) Crevice in the earth.
(b) Swamp.
(c) Funeral pyre.
(d) Shark.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT hanging "in the balance before its due time" (ll. 68-70)?

2. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?

3. To what end does the narrator note he is driven (ll. 36-38)?

4. The narrator describes the "salt streams" as which of the following (l. 35)?

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

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