2. The narrator remarks he "heard nothing there but the noise of” which of the following (l. 18)?
(a) Mead-drink.
(b) Music.
(c) The sea.
(d) The laughter of men.

3. To what does the phrase “summer’s guardian" refer (l. 54)?
(a) Eagle.
(b) Cuckoo.
(c) Crow.
(d) Egret.

4. Which of the following does the narrator note is a favorable state (ll. 39-43)?
(a) Beloved of his brewer.
(b) Beloved of his spouse.
(c) Beloved of his lord.
(d) Beloved of his boys and girls.

5. Which of the following does the narrator assert is true of “he whose lot is fairest on land” (ll. 12-13)?
(a) He protects and attacks.
(b) He does not care.
(c) He just complains.
(d) He does not know.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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. In the phrase “were my feet, bound by frost” (l. 9), which of the following words receives relative stress / emphasis?

4. The narrator describes his doubter as which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

5. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” offers an example of which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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