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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Per the Broadview editors (16-17), when is “The Seafarer” believed to have been written?
(a) The late 800s CE.
(b) The late 1100s CE.
(c) The late 900s CE.
(d) The late 1000s CE.

2. 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) Justification.
(b) Juxtaposition.
(c) Superposition.
(d) Carcinization.

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

4. In line 32, “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

5. The phrase “in days of toil / I’ve often suffered troubled times, / hard heartache” (ll. 2-4) offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Pentameter.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Alliteration.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?

2. 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?

3. Which of the following does the narrator remark happened when he "wretched with care, dwelt all winter” (ll. 14-17)?

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

5. How many stressed / emphasized syllables occur in the opening comment of the poem, “I sing a true song of myself” (l. 1)?

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