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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Deer hunting.
(c) Dear kinsmen.
(d) Dead kinsmen.

2. The narrator suggests that the seafarer of the title is which of the following (ll. 35-38)?
(a) God.
(b) The narrator.
(c) His spirit.
(d) The man in town.

3. In line 37, “time and again to travel, so that I might seek,” how many times is the DOMINANT alliteration iterated?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes hail as which of the following (ll. 32-33)?

2. In line 28, “suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?

3. By which of the following were the narrator's "feet, bound by frost” (ll. 9-10)?

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

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

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