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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator notes that which of the following darkened (l. 31)?
(a) The swift winds.
(b) The new moon.
(c) The day-walker.
(d) The night-shadow.

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) Seafaring.
(d) Had.

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?
(a) Pointillism.
(b) Passant.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Parallelism.

5. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Anaphora.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator suggests that the seafarer of the title is which of the following (ll. 35-38)?

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

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

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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