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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 line 44, “He has no thought of the harp or the taking of rings,” there is an example of which of the following?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Simile.

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

3. Which of the following does the narrator note is a favorable state (ll. 39-43)?
(a) Beloved of his boys and girls.
(b) Beloved of his lord.
(c) Beloved of his spouse.
(d) Beloved of his brewer.

4. To what does the phrase “summer’s guardian" refer (l. 54)?
(a) Egret.
(b) Crow.
(c) Cuckoo.
(d) Eagle.

5. In the sentence “And so he who has tasted life’s joy in towns, / suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes, / proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary, / have often had to endure in my seafaring” (ll. 27-30), which of the following does NOT describe the “he” upon whom the narrator remarks?
(a) Proud and puffed up with wine.
(b) Suffered few sad journeys.
(c) Has tasted life's joy in towns.
(d) Weary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator remark happened when he "wretched with care, dwelt all winter” (ll. 14-17)?

2. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?

3. The second sentence of the poem reads “Pinched with cold / were my feet, bound by frost / in cold fetters, while cares seethed / hot around my heart, hunger tore from within / my sea-weary mind” (ll. 8-12). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?

4. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” is a descriptor meaning which of the following?

5. 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?

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