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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 does the narrator link to the noise of the sea (ll. 18-19)?
(a) The ice-cold waves.
(b) The leaping dolphins.
(c) The surging surf.
(d) The rolling tide.

2. 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) Alliteration.
(b) Pentameter.
(c) Rhyme.
(d) Euphemism.

3. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

5. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?
(a) The Winchester Manuscript.
(b) The Voynich Manuscript.
(c) The Exeter Book.
(d) The Vercelli Book.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes which of the following as his thinking part (l. 34)?

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

3. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” offers an example of which of the following?

4. 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?

5. The narrator claims to be doubted by which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

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