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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator describes the "salt streams" as which of the following (l. 35)?
(a) Flowing.
(b) Tossing.
(c) Churning.
(d) Seething.

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

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

4. Of which of the following is narrator deprived when he “wretched with care, dwelt all winter / on the ice-cold sea in the paths of exile" (ll. 13-16)?
(a) Dear kinsmen.
(b) Deer hunting.
(c) Dear kissing.
(d) Dead kinsmen.

5. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Proposition.
(b) Supposition.
(c) Apposition.
(d) Opposition.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes the screaming eagle as which of the following (ll. 24-25)?

2. What does the narrator describe as urging his spirit onwards (l. 36)?

3. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered” (ll. 23-24). The passage offers an example of which of the following?

4. The narrator describes his doubter as which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

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

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