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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In l. 80, “delight among heaven’s host. The days are lost,” there is an example of which of the following?
(a) Enthrallment.
(b) End-stop.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Enjambment.

2. What has the fallen noble host lost (l. 86)?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Tacos.
(d) Hunger.

3. What happens to the earth's nobility (l. 89)?
(a) It goes away.
(b) It eats.
(c) It withers.
(d) It increases.

4. To what does the phrase “summer’s guardian" refer (l. 54)?
(a) Egret.
(b) Eagle.
(c) Crow.
(d) Cuckoo.

5. To which of the following does "his fleshly cloak" (l. 94) refer?
(a) Skirt steak.
(b) Bearskin rug.
(c) Body.
(d) Parchment.

6. The descriptor “greedy and hungry” (l. 62) modifies which of the following?
(a) Me.
(b) The sea-flood.
(c) My spirit.
(d) My breast.

7. To what does "be on his way" refer (l. 74)?
(a) Vacation.
(b) Life.
(c) Commuting.
(d) Death.

8. In line 44, “He has no thought of the harp or the taking of rings,” there is an example of which of the following?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Simile.

9. The narrator describes sorrow as being which of the following (ll. 54-55)?
(a) Painful to the purse-string.
(b) Stinky in the strong-parts.
(c) Bitter in the breast-hoard.
(d) Sour in the skull-hoard.

10. What does the narrator claim is a gift that does not help against fear?
(a) Boldness.
(b) Youth.
(c) Girth.
(d) Grace.

11. Line 92, “the graybeard grieves; he knows his old friends,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Synecdoche.
(b) Simile.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Metonymy.

12. Which of the following does he have "who hastens to sea" (l. 47)?
(a) Growing.
(b) Surfing.
(c) Longing.
(d) Hurting.

13. What “hangs in the balance before its due time" (ll. 68-69)?
(a) One thing.
(b) One of two things.
(c) One of five things.
(d) One of three things.

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

15. Whom does the narrator state might have something in store for a person (l. 43)?
(a) The Lord.
(b) The devil.
(c) Nobody.
(d) The Lady.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what does the narrator remark a brother may wish to bury his brother (ll. 97-99)?

3. The narrator describes how many people as fearless (ll. 39-43)?

4. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?

5. In l. 80, “delight among heaven’s host. The days are lost,” how many times is the alliteration iterated?

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