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Read the passage and answer the question that follows

On, on, on, over the countless miles of angry space roll the long heaving billows. Mountains and caves are here; for what is now the other; then all is but a boiling heap of rushing water. Pursuit, and flight and mad return of wave on wave, and savage struggle, ending up in a spouting up of foam that whitens the black night; incessant change of place and form and hue; constancy in nothing but eternal strife. 

On, on, on, they roll and darker frows the night; and louder howls the wind and more clamorous and fierce become the million voices in the sea, when wild cry goes forth upon the storm, 'A ship!'

1511

A ship in the last line symbolises _________

  • A. despair.
  • B. hope
  • C. pirates
  • D. sailors
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Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.

Oft in the stilly night

Ere slumber's chain has bound me

Fond memory brings the light

of other days around me:

The smiles, the tears

of boyhood years.

The words of love then spoken;

The eyes that shone

How dimm'd and.gone

The cheerful hearts now broken!

Thus in the stilly night

Ere slumber's chain has bound me.

1512

The theme is about the poet's _________

  • A. broken love affairs.
  • B. fee the stilly night.
  • C. sleepless night.
  • D. yearning for happier times gone
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1513

The theme of the poem is presented essentially through ________

  • A. assonance
  • B. contrast.
  • C. paradox
  • D. repetition
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1514

The two words that give hint of the poet's unhappiness are?

  • A. light and night
  • B. light and shone
  • C. night and dimm'd
  • D. Shone and dimm'd
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1515

The poet refers to memory as being 'fond' and 'sad' because it brings?

  • A. cheers and smiles
  • B. love and joy
  • C. sorrow and pity
  • D. smiles and tears
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