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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 ice-cold waves.
(b) The leaping dolphins.
(c) The rolling tide.
(d) The surging surf.

2. In line 32, “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

3. In line 17, “hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 4
(d) 2.

4. Per the Broadview editors (16-17), when is “The Seafarer” believed to have been written?
(a) The late 900s CE.
(b) The late 1100s CE.
(c) The late 1000s CE.
(d) The late 800s CE.

5. 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) Paradox.
(b) Pointillism.
(c) Passant.
(d) Parallelism.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?

2. By which of the following were the narrator's "feet, bound by frost” (ll. 9-10)?

3. The narrator describes the "salt streams" as which of the following (l. 35)?

4. Which of the following does the narrator note is a favorable state (ll. 39-43)?

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

(see the answer key)

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