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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator notes suffering in which of the following (ll. 27-30)?
(a) Seafaring.
(b) Sunbathing.
(c) Ceasing.
(d) Shackling.

3. 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) Carcinization.
(b) Juxtaposition.
(c) Justification.
(d) Superposition.

4. In the phrase “he always has longing who hastens to sea” (l. 47), how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

5. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” is a descriptor meaning which of the following?
(a) Intoxicated.
(b) Obtuse.
(c) Exultant.
(d) Heavyset.

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 37, “time and again to travel, so that I might seek,” how many times is the DOMINANT alliteration iterated?

2. The narrator notes a lack of which of the following (ll. 25-26)?

3. In line 55, “bitter in the breast-hoard. He does not know,” which of the following is present?

4. The narrator notes that which of the following darkened (l. 31)?

5. 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?

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