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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator link to the noise of the sea (ll. 18-19)?
(a) The rolling tide.
(b) The surging surf.
(c) The leaping dolphins.
(d) The ice-cold waves.

2. The narrator remarks that “I heard nothing there but the noise of the sea” (l. 18). Relative stress / emphasis falls at the beginning of which words in the remark?
(a) There and the.
(b) I and nothing.
(c) Heard and noise.
(d) I and sea.

3. The narrator comments "the curlew’s cry ” which of the following (l. 21)?
(a) The sea.
(b) Mead-drink.
(c) Music.
(d) The laughter of men.

4. Which of the following will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?
(a) Forests brighten.
(b) Fields brighten.
(c) Fields darken.
(d) Cities darken.

5. By which of the following were the narrator's "feet, bound by frost” (ll. 9-10)?
(a) Coder flatterers.
(b) Cod fetters.
(c) Cold fetters.
(d) Cold feathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator remarks he "heard nothing there but the noise of” which of the following (l. 18)?

2. In the phrase “to try for myself” (l. 34), relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?

3. The narrator describes his thoughts as doing which of the following (ll. 33-34)?

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

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

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