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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 39-57.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?
(a) The Winchester Manuscript.
(b) The Vercelli Book.
(c) The Exeter Book.
(d) The Voynich Manuscript.

2. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?
(a) Troubled times.
(b) Righteous wrath.
(c) Pox and penury.
(d) Sweet surrender.

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

4. In line 35, “the high seas, the tossing salt streams,” how many times is the alliteration iterated?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

5. The narrator notes a lack of which of the following (ll. 25-26)?
(a) Integration.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Consolation.
(d) Confirmation.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator notes suffering in which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

2. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?

3. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?

4. The narrator comments "the curlew’s cry ” which of the following (l. 21)?

5. The phrase “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth” (l. 32) offers an example of which of the following?

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