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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following came from the north (l. 31)?
(a) Wind.
(b) Snow.
(c) Attack.
(d) Rain.

2. The narrator remarks that “no sheltering family / could bring consolation to” which of the following (ll. 25-26)?
(a) My chemical romance.
(b) My brave voyager.
(c) My desolate soul.
(d) My exceptional skill.

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

4. In line 37, “time and again to travel, so that I might seek,” how many times is the DOMINANT alliteration iterated?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

5. The narrator describes his doubter as which of the following (ll. 27-30)?
(a) He has traveled in many journeys.
(b) He has suffered few sad journeys.
(c) He has fought in many tourneys.
(d) He has enjoyed few happy journeys.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?

3. Which of the following does the narrator assert is true of “he whose lot is fairest on land” (ll. 12-13)?

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

5. In line 17, “hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

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