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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 often will the narrator believe in the endurance of physical things (ll. 66-67)?
(a) Always.
(b) Never.
(c) Sometimes.
(d) Once.

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

3. In the phrase “summer’s guardian announces sorrow” (l. 54), relative stress / emphasis DOES NOT fall on the first syllable of which of the following?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Announces.
(c) Summer's.
(d) Guardian.

4. 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 care.
(b) He just complains.
(c) He does not know.
(d) He protects and attacks.

5. In l. 102, “the gold he had hidden while he lived here on earth,” how many times is the DOMINANT alliteration iterated?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To which of the following does "his fleshly cloak" (l. 94) refer?

3. What musician does the narrator claim to have heard (ll. 19-20)?

4. Line 83, “nor gold-gives as there once were,” offers an example of which of the following?

5. In line 110, “steadfast in its promises, pure in its ways,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

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