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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 notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?
(a) Pox and penury.
(b) Righteous wrath.
(c) Sweet surrender.
(d) Troubled times.

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

3. In line 30, “have often had to endure in my seafaring,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) Endure.
(b) My.
(c) Had.
(d) Seafaring.

4. In line 17, “hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4

5. The narrator notes a lack of which of the following (ll. 25-26)?
(a) Consolation.
(b) Integration.
(c) Confirmation.
(d) Isolation.

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 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?

3. The narrator comments about “the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men” (l. 21). The comment offers an example of which of the following?

4. Per the Broadview editors (16-17), when is “The Seafarer” believed to have been written?

5. The narrator remarks that “That man does not know, / he whose lot is fairest on land, / how I, wretched with care, dwelt all winter / on the ice-cold sea in the paths of exile, / deprived of dear kinsmen, / hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers” (ll. 12-17). In the sentence, “I” is in apposition to which of the following?

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