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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. 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)?
(a) Refrain.
(b) Chorus.
(c) Verse.
(d) Conceit.

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

3. What does it mean that the people are "exulting"?
(a) They are cheering excitedly.
(b) They are quietly watchful.
(c) They are crying out in grief.
(d) They are drinking and celebrating.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Line 5, " But O heart! heart! heart!" is an example of which technique?

4. In context, the literal meaning of the word "rack" in line two is which of the following?

5. What type of rhyme is employed in line 20, "From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won"?

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