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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 103-124.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. With which of the following does the narrator note "a brother might wish to strew his brother's / grave" (ll. 97-98)?
(a) Beryl.
(b) Silver.
(c) Grains.
(d) Gold.
2. In l. 92, “the graybeard grieves; he knows his old friends,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.
3. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” is a descriptor meaning which of the following?
(a) Intoxicated.
(b) Obtuse.
(c) Heavyset.
(d) Exultant.
4. 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) Parallelism.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Pointillism.
5. Which of the following is NOT hanging "in the balance before its due time" (ll. 68-70)?
(a) Illness.
(b) Age.
(c) Attack by the sword.
(d) Being put in prison.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
3. In the phrase “were my feet, bound by frost” (l. 9), which of the following words receives relative stress / emphasis?
4. 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?
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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