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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 103-124.

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

2. Which of the following does the narrator bid the audience to consider (l. 117)?
(a) Where to have a home.
(b) Where to have a family.
(c) Where to board a ship.
(d) Where to have a business.

3. The narrator describes sorrow as being which of the following (ll. 54-55)?
(a) Painful to the purse-string.
(b) Stinky in the strong-parts.
(c) Bitter in the breast-hoard.
(d) Sour in the skull-hoard.

4. With which of the following does the narrator note "a brother might wish to strew his brother's / grave" (ll. 97-98)?
(a) Gold.
(b) Grains.
(c) Beryl.
(d) Silver.

5. In the phrase “nor so bold in deeds, nor so beloved of his lord” (l. 41), how many times is the alliteration iterated?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. The descriptor “greedy and hungry” (l. 62) modifies which of the following?

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

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

4. Line 105, “the earth’s solid surface and the high heavens,” offers an example of which of the following?

5. The phrase “in days of toil / I’ve often suffered troubled times, / hard heartache” (ll. 2-4) offers examples of which of the following?

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