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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 58-102.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Antithesis.

2. What “hangs in the balance before its due time" (ll. 68-69)?
(a) One thing.
(b) One of three things.
(c) One of two things.
(d) One of five things.

3. Which of the following came from the north (l. 31)?
(a) Attack.
(b) Rain.
(c) Wind.
(d) Snow.

4. In l. 102, “the gold he had hidden while he lived here on earth,” how many times is the DOMINANT alliteration iterated?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

5. The narrator describes which of the following as his thinking part (l. 34)?
(a) Head.
(b) Heart.
(c) Belly.
(d) Buttocks.

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 37, “time and again to travel, so that I might seek,” how many times is the DOMINANT alliteration iterated?

2. Line 66, “loaned, on land. I will never believe,” offers an example of which of the following?

3. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

4. The narrator suggests that the seafarer of the title is which of the following (ll. 35-38)?

5. The narrator describes sorrow as being which of the following (ll. 54-55)?

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