Q01of 10
What triggers Manahem's opening flight from the palace?
Q02of 10
Which angel does Manahem invoke to guide him away from Machaerus?
Q03of 10
The poem is structured with stage directions such as 'A trumpet is blown from the walls.' This device is characteristic of what form?
Q04of 10
Manahem compares Herodias to a figure from Hebrew scripture, calling her the usurper who lay 'at night by the side / Of Ahasuerus the king.' What is the allusion's intended effect?
Q05of 10
What does Manahem say causes the prophet's death, according to the poem?
Q06of 10
The image of 'a white mass as of snow / Is hurled into the abyss' most directly refers to which event?
Q07of 10
What celestial phenomenon does Manahem interpret as 'a threatening of wrath divine'?
Q08of 10
The tone of Manahem's final stanza ('Malediction! malediction!') is best described as which of the following?
Q09of 10
Manahem prays that the body of the slain prophet be buried by God, comparing the act to the burial of 'him that died / On the mountain of Peor.' This alludes to which biblical figure?
Q10of 10
Which literary technique does Longfellow chiefly use when Manahem cries 'O hand of the Most High, / O hand of Adonai!'?
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