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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 will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?
(a) Groves taking blossom.
(b) Birds taking flight.
(c) Graves taking bodies.
(d) Giraffes taking badgers.

2. 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?
(a) Passant.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Pointillism.
(d) Parallelism.

3. 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) Paths of exile.
(b) Hail flew in showers.
(c) Whose lot is fairest on land.
(d) Deprived of dear kinsmen.

4. The narrator remarks that “the wild swan’s song / sometimes served as my music, the gannet’s call / and the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men, / the seagull’s singing for mead-drink” (ll. 19-22). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Parallelism.
(b) Passant.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Pointillism.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator remarks that “no sheltering family / could bring consolation to” which of the following (ll. 25-26)?

3. In line 28, “suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?

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

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

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