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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator state a person must do (l. 109)?
(a) Sit a fair seat.
(b) Shake off the snow.
(c) Steer a strong mind.
(d) Steer a strong ship.

2. The phrase “in days of toil / I’ve often suffered troubled times, / hard heartache” (ll. 2-4) offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Pentameter.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Rhyme.

3. The narrator remarks he "heard nothing there but the noise of” which of the following (l. 18)?
(a) The laughter of men.
(b) The sea.
(c) Music.
(d) Mead-drink.

4. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered” (ll. 23-24). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Supposition.
(b) Opposition.
(c) Apposition.
(d) Proposition.

5. What in the humble person does the narrator assert the Maker will strengthen (ll. 107-08)?
(a) Heart.
(b) Stomach.
(c) Spirit.
(d) Mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 115, “on a funeral pyre. Fate is greater,” an example is offered of which of the following?

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

3. The narrator describes which of the following as his thinking part (l. 34)?

4. The narrator describes the screaming eagle as which of the following (ll. 24-25)?

5. What has the fallen noble host lost (l. 86)?

(see the answer key)

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