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ETHIOPIA SALUTING THE COLOURS..

by Walt Whitman.

Ten questions on craft, meaning, and form. Untimed. Answer every question to submit.

Q01of 10

What is the poem's primary setting?

Q02of 10

Who is the speaker of the italicized stanza beginning 'Me master years a hundred since'?

Q03of 10

What does the phrase 'woolly-white and turban'd head' primarily establish about the woman?

Q04of 10

Which literary technique does Whitman use when he repeats variations of 'hardly human' in both the first and final stanzas?

Q05of 10

The closing question — 'Are the things so strange and marvellous you see or have seen?' — is best described as which of the following?

Q06of 10

What is the dominant tone of the speaker's voice throughout the poem?

Q07of 10

The image of Ethiopia 'courtesies to the regiments, the guidons moving by' most directly conveys which idea?

Q08of 10

Which allusion does the poem's title most directly invoke?

Q09of 10

In the line 'A little child, they caught me as the savage beast is caught,' the simile primarily serves to:

Q10of 10

What is the structural function of the second stanza, enclosed in parentheses?

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