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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 does the phrase "swaying mass" refer to (line 12)?
(a) The flag.
(b) The ship.
(c) The captain.
(d) The crowd.

2. What feature of the Captain's face does line 17 focus on?
(a) His chin.
(b) His eyes.
(c) His mouth.
(d) His brow.

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

4. Where is the ship in the beginning of the poem?
(a) Just coming into port.
(b) Docked in the port.
(c) Just leaving the port.
(d) On the open sea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the second quatrain of the second stanza, what becomes clear about the speaker's state of mind?

2. Which term describes the poem's repeated use of the phrases "O Captain! My Captain!" (lines 1 and 9) and "fallen cold and dead" (lines 8, 16, and 24)?

3. Who is the speaker of the poem?

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

5. In context, the word "fearful" in line 1 indicates that the trip was which of the following?

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