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1. "O Captain! My Captain!" is an extended metaphor for the death of what historical figure?
2. "O Captain! my Captain! our ____ trip is done." What kind of trip?
3. "The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won." What prize has been won?
4. "The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all ____." What are the people doing?
5. "But O heart! heart! heart! / O the bleeding drops of red, / Where on the deck my Captain lies, / Fallen cold and" what?
6. "Rise up - for you ____ is flung - for you the bugle trills." What is flung?
7. "My Captain does not answer, his lips are" what?
8. For its meter, Walt Whitman's poem uses both iambs and what other type of metrical foot, as seen in the line "O Captain! My Captain!"?
9. "Exult O shores, and ring O bells! / But I with mournful ____, / Walk the deck my Captain lies, / Fallen cold and dead." What word is missing form the blank?
10. This poem plays a prominent part in what 1989 movie featuring Robin Williams as a schoolteacher?
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