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REPUBLIC AND MOTHERLAND.

by Alfred Noyes.

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

Q01of 10

What time of day does the speaker's ship enter New York Harbor?

Q02of 10

In the poem, the Statue of Liberty is described as 'Silent, for all the shouts that vex her land.' What does this phrase most likely suggest?

Q03of 10

Which poetic technique is most prominent in the lines 'Westward and ever westward ran the call, / They followed the pilgrim sun'?

Q04of 10

The phrase 'Saxon and Norman in one wedded soul' primarily alludes to which historical reality?

Q05of 10

The poem's central theme is best described as which of the following?

Q06of 10

Who is addressed by the apostrophe 'O Mother' in the poem's final stanza?

Q07of 10

What is the tone of the speaker when describing America's 'gigantic towers' and 'rolling plains'?

Q08of 10

The image 'The brood of gods at that gigantic breast' most directly functions as what kind of figurative language?

Q09of 10

In the stanza beginning 'Chosen from many—for no sluggard soul,' what condition does the speaker imply about those who immigrated to America?

Q10of 10

What structural feature most consistently organizes each stanza throughout the poem?

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