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

2. The narrator describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?
(a) Casts called out to the crowd.
(b) Cars raced swiflty on the street.
(c) Carts heaped up with the harvest.
(d) Cares seethed hot around his heart.

3. How many stressed / emphasized syllables occur in the opening comment of the poem, “I sing a true song of myself” (l. 1)?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

4. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?
(a) Coarse dwellings.
(b) Car selling.
(c) Care's dwellings.
(d) Care's swellings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From which of the following does the narrator note the tern replies (l. 23)?

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

3. The narrator describes his thoughts as doing which of the following (ll. 33-34)?

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

5. The narrator remarks he "heard nothing there but the noise of” which of the following (l. 18)?

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