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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 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

2. The narrator describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?
(a) Carts heaped up with the harvest.
(b) Casts called out to the crowd.
(c) Cares seethed hot around his heart.
(d) Cars raced swiflty on the street.

3. Which of the following does the narrator remark happened when he "wretched with care, dwelt all winter” (ll. 14-17)?
(a) Hot chocolate was served.
(b) Hail flew in showers.
(c) The field filled with flowers.
(d) He took hot showers.

4. What does the narrator note a man will have from his seafaring (l. 42)?
(a) Solace.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Surprise.
(d) Sorrow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?

2. The phrase “in days of toil / I’ve often suffered troubled times, / hard heartache” (ll. 2-4) offers examples of which of the following?

3. From which of the following does the narrator note the tern replies (l. 23)?

4. How many stressed / emphasized syllables occur in the opening comment of the poem, “I sing a true song of myself” (l. 1)?

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

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