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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 assert is true of “he whose lot is fairest on land” (ll. 12-13)?
(a) He protects and attacks.
(b) He just complains.
(c) He does not know.
(d) He does not care.

2. The narrator notes suffering in which of the following (ll. 27-30)?
(a) Seafaring.
(b) Shackling.
(c) Ceasing.
(d) Sunbathing.

3. The narrator describes the screaming eagle as which of the following (ll. 24-25)?
(a) Family-like.
(b) Dewy-feathered.
(c) Sky-beautiful.
(d) Carrion-eating.

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 kissing.
(b) Dead kinsmen.
(c) Dear kinsmen.
(d) Deer hunting.

5. 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) Pointillism.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Passant.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator remarks that “I heard nothing there but the noise of the sea” (l. 18). Relative stress / emphasis falls at the beginning of which words in the remark?

2. The phrase “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth” (l. 32) offers an example of which of the following?

3. The narrator comments about “the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men” (l. 21). The comment offers an example of which of the following?

4. 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?

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

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