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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator ascribe to the terror of God (l. 103)?
(a) The sun rises.
(b) The earth trembles.
(c) The moon sets.
(d) The tide goes out.

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

3. What “hangs in the balance before its due time" (ll. 68-69)?
(a) One thing.
(b) One of three things.
(c) One of five things.
(d) One of two things.

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

5. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered” (ll. 23-24). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Opposition.
(b) Apposition.
(c) Proposition.
(d) Supposition.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which of the following does "his fleshly cloak" (l. 94) refer?

2. Which of the following does the narrator remark happened when he "wretched with care, dwelt all winter” (ll. 14-17)?

3. Which of the following does he have "who hastens to sea" (l. 47)?

4. The narrator describes how many people as fearless (ll. 39-43)?

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

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