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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what end does the narrator note he is driven (ll. 36-38)?
(a) That he might seek a new fruit stand.
(b) That he might seek his own homeland.
(c) That he might seek a finer brand.
(d) That he might seek a foreign land.

2. The narrator describes the "salt streams" as which of the following (l. 35)?
(a) Flowing.
(b) Seething.
(c) Tossing.
(d) Churning.

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. The narrator describes which of the following as his thinking part (l. 34)?
(a) Heart.
(b) Belly.
(c) Buttocks.
(d) Head.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following came from the north (l. 31)?

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

4. The narrator comments "the curlew’s cry ” which of the following (l. 21)?

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

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