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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In line 55, “bitter in the breast-hoard. He does not know,” which of the following is present?
(a) Curling.
(b) Künstlerroman.
(c) Cunning.
(d) Kenning.

2. Per the narrator, what must a man do "before he must be on his way" (ll. 74-79)?
(a) Eat.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Act.
(d) Pack.

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?
(a) Passant.
(b) Pointillism.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Paradox.

4. In the phrase “summer’s guardian announces sorrow” (l. 54), relative stress / emphasis DOES NOT fall on the first syllable of which of the following?
(a) Announces.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Summer's.
(d) Guardian.

5. Which of the following does he have "who hastens to sea" (l. 47)?
(a) Growing.
(b) Longing.
(c) Hurting.
(d) Surfing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the phrase “he always has longing who hastens to sea” (l. 47), how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

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

3. In the phrase “to try for myself” (l. 34), relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?

4. The narrator states that “Joy is laid low, / the earth’s nobility grows old and withers, / just like every man throughout this middle-earth” (ll. 88-90). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?

5. To what end does the narrator note he is driven (ll. 36-38)?

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