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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what is the narrator's heart incited irresistibly (l. 63)?
(a) The well.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The river.
(d) The lake.

2. What does the narrator note a man will have from his seafaring (l. 42)?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Solace.
(c) Surprise.
(d) Sleep.

3. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?
(a) Car selling.
(b) Care's dwellings.
(c) Coarse dwellings.
(d) Care's swellings.

4. What does the narrator assert must be held in moderation (ll. 111-12)?
(a) Love for drink and hatred for bad food.
(b) Love for the land and love for the sea.
(c) Love for a friend and hatred for a foe.
(d) Love for a spouse and hatred for a foe.

5. With what does the narrator remark a brother may wish to bury his brother (ll. 97-99)?
(a) Myriad pleasures.
(b) Several measures.
(c) Silver and jewels.
(d) Myriad treasures.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator remarks that "The joys of the Lord than this dead life" are which of the following (ll. 64-65)?

2. In line 120, “of eternal blessedness,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

3. In line 30, “have often had to endure in my seafaring,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?

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

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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