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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 is NOT hanging "in the balance before its due time" (ll. 68-70)?
(a) Illness.
(b) Age.
(c) Attack by the sword.
(d) Being put in prison.

2. What musician does the narrator claim to have heard (ll. 19-20)?
(a) The red cardinal.
(b) The wild swan.
(c) The clucking chicken.
(d) The tame goose.

3. Line 83, “nor gold-gives as there once were,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Kenning.
(b) Künstlerroman.
(c) Curling.
(d) Cunning.

4. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Proposition.
(b) Opposition.
(c) Apposition.
(d) Supposition.

5. The narrator remarks that “the wild swan’s song / sometimes served as my music, the gannet’s call / and the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men, / the seagull’s singing for mead-drink” (ll. 19-22). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Superposition.
(b) Juxtaposition.
(c) Justification.
(d) Carcinization.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does "be on his way" refer (l. 74)?

2. The narrator states that “Joy is laid low, / the earth’s nobility grows old and withers, / just like every man throughout this middle-earth” (ll. 88-90). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?

3. In line 17, “hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

4. Which of the following does the narrator ask the audience to strive to do (l. 119)?

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

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