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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 27-38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered; often the eagle screamed, / dewy-feathered” (ll. 23-25). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Aphorism.
(b) Anagram.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Anaphora.

2. The narrator remarks that none “could bring consolation to my desolate soul” (l. 26). How many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are in the line?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

3. In the sentence “And so he who has tasted life’s joy in towns, / suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes, / proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary, / have often had to endure in my seafaring” (ll. 27-30), which of the following does NOT describe the “he” upon whom the narrator remarks?
(a) Suffered few sad journeys.
(b) Has tasted life's joy in towns.
(c) Weary.
(d) Proud and puffed up with wine.

4. In the phrase “were my feet, bound by frost” (l. 9), which of the following words receives relative stress / emphasis?
(a) Feet.
(b) Bound.
(c) My.
(d) Were.

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

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

4. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” is a descriptor meaning which of the following?

5. In the phrase “to try for myself” (l. 34), relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?

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