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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 he have "who hastens to sea" (l. 47)?
(a) Hurting.
(b) Longing.
(c) Surfing.
(d) Growing.

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

3. 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?
(a) Parallelism.
(b) Pointillism.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Passant.

4. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?
(a) Troubled times.
(b) Righteous wrath.
(c) Pox and penury.
(d) Sweet surrender.

5. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” is a descriptor meaning which of the following?
(a) Heavyset.
(b) Exultant.
(c) Intoxicated.
(d) Obtuse.

Short Answer Questions

1. In l. 85, “and lived in most lordly fame,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

2. The narrator notes a lack of which of the following (ll. 25-26)?

3. Which of the following renamings does the narrator give "the Holy One" (ll. 121-14)?

4. The narrator describes which of the following as his thinking part (l. 34)?

5. In line 28, “suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?

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