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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 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?
(a) I and nothing.
(b) I and sea.
(c) Heard and noise.
(d) There and the.

2. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Anaphora.

3. To what end does the narrator note he is driven (ll. 36-38)?
(a) That he might seek his own homeland.
(b) That he might seek a new fruit stand.
(c) That he might seek a finer brand.
(d) That he might seek a foreign land.

4. In the phrase “to try for myself” (l. 34), relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) Try.
(b) Myself.
(c) For.
(d) To.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered; often the eagle screamed, / dewy-feathered” (ll. 23-25). The passage offers an example of which of the following?

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

3. The second sentence of the poem reads “Pinched with cold / were my feet, bound by frost / in cold fetters, while cares seethed / hot around my heart, hunger tore from within / my sea-weary mind” (ll. 8-12). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?

4. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?

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

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