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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator remarks that “That man does not know, / he whose lot is fairest on land, / how I, wretched with care, dwelt all winter / on the ice-cold sea in the paths of exile, / deprived of dear kinsmen, / hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers” (ll. 12-17). In the sentence, “I” is in apposition to which of the following?
(a) Hail flew in showers.
(b) Whose lot is fairest on land.
(c) Paths of exile.
(d) Deprived of dear kinsmen.

2. The narrator describes the "salt streams" as which of the following (l. 35)?
(a) Seething.
(b) Tossing.
(c) Flowing.
(d) Churning.

3. The phrase “in days of toil / I’ve often suffered troubled times, / hard heartache” (ll. 2-4) offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Pentameter.

4. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Proposition.
(b) Opposition.
(c) Apposition.
(d) Supposition.

5. Of which of the following is narrator deprived when he “wretched with care, dwelt all winter / on the ice-cold sea in the paths of exile" (ll. 13-16)?
(a) Dead kinsmen.
(b) Dear kinsmen.
(c) Dear kissing.
(d) Deer hunting.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator describes his doubter as which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

3. Which of the following will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?

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

5. What does the narrator note a man will have from his seafaring (l. 42)?

(see the answer key)

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