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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator describes how many people as fearless (ll. 39-43)?
(a) Some.
(b) None.
(c) One.
(d) All.

3. What musician does the narrator claim to have heard (ll. 19-20)?
(a) The tame goose.
(b) The clucking chicken.
(c) The red cardinal.
(d) The wild swan.

4. Which of the following does he have "who hastens to sea" (l. 47)?
(a) Growing.
(b) Hurting.
(c) Surfing.
(d) Longing.

5. The narrator describes sorrow as being which of the following (ll. 54-55)?
(a) Bitter in the breast-hoard.
(b) Stinky in the strong-parts.
(c) Painful to the purse-string.
(d) Sour in the skull-hoard.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In line 44, “He has no thought of the harp or the taking of rings,” there is an example of which of the following?

3. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?

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

5. The narrator remarks that none “could bring consolation to my desolate soul” (l. 26). How many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are in the line?

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