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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 58-102.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator describes how many people as fearless (ll. 39-43)?
(a) All.
(b) One.
(c) Some.
(d) None.

2. Per the narrator, what "is the best eulogy" (ll. 72-73)?
(a) The piles of plenty.
(b) The largest grave-marker.
(c) The praise of posterity.
(d) The sturdiest statue.

3. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?
(a) Righteous wrath.
(b) Pox and penury.
(c) Troubled times.
(d) Sweet surrender.

4. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

5. 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) Summer's.
(c) Guardian.
(d) Announces.

Short Answer Questions

1. In l. 92, “the graybeard grieves; he knows his old friends,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

2. What happens to the earth's nobility (l. 89)?

3. The narrator remarks that “That man does not know, / he whose lot is fairest on land, / how I, wretched with care, dwelt all winter / on the ice-cold sea in the paths of exile, / deprived of dear kinsmen, / hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers” (ll. 12-17). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?

4. Which of the following does he have "who hastens to sea" (l. 47)?

5. In line 35, “the high seas, the tossing salt streams,” how many times is the alliteration iterated?

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