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

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

3. The phrase “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth” (l. 32) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Pun.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Rhyme.

4. The narrator claims to be doubted by which of the following (ll. 27-30)?
(a) He who has tasted life’s joy in towns.
(b) His own heart and mind.
(c) She who knows the old wisdom.
(d) He who furnished commencement gowns.

5. The narrator comments "the curlew’s cry ” which of the following (l. 21)?
(a) The laughter of men.
(b) Mead-drink.
(c) Music.
(d) The sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What musician does the narrator claim to have heard (ll. 19-20)?

2. In the sentence “And so he who has tasted life’s joy in towns, / suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes, / proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary, / have often had to endure in my seafaring” (ll. 27-30), which of the following does NOT describe the “he” upon whom the narrator remarks?

3. The narrator remarks that none “could bring consolation to my desolate soul” (l. 26). How many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are in the line?

4. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” is a descriptor meaning which of the following?

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?

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