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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "O Captain! My Captain!" lines 1-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of rhyme is employed in line 20, "From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won"?
(a) Identical rhyme.
(b) Eye rhyme.
(c) Near rhyme.
(d) Internal rhyme.

2. Line 4, "While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring," contains examples of which techniques?
(a) Simie and alliteration.
(b) Personification and simile.
(c) Synecdoche and personification.
(d) Alliteration and synecdoche.

3. In the second quatrain of the second stanza, what becomes clear about the speaker's state of mind?
(a) He is afraid that he is in some way responsible for the captain's death.
(b) He is actually asleep and only dreaming of the captain's death.
(c) He hopes to hide the captain's death from the crowd.
(d) He has not fully accepted the captain's death.

4. Which technique is evident in line 10, "Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills"?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Antistrophe.
(d) Antimetabole.

5. Who is the author of "O Captain! my Captain!"?
(a) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
(b) William Cullen Bryant.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Walt Whitman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most common type of metrical foot in "O Captain! My Captain!"?

2. Which is the best interpretation of line 9, when the speaker urges "O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells"?

3. Which details in the second stanza evoke a patriotic occasion?

4. What is the rhyme pattern of the first four lines of each stanza?

5. Who is the speaker of the poem?

(see the answer key)

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