1. 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) Pointillism.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Passant.
(d) Paradox.

2. The narrator remarks that none “could bring consolation to my desolate soul” (l. 26). How many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are in the line?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

3. From which of the following does the narrator note the tern replies (l. 23)?
(a) Standing trees.
(b) Stone cliffs.
(c) Ship's stem.
(d) Solemn graves.

4. Of which of the following is narrator deprived when he “wretched with care, dwelt all winter / on the ice-cold sea in the paths of exile" (ll. 13-16)?
(a) Deer hunting.
(b) Dead kinsmen.
(c) Dear kinsmen.
(d) Dear kissing.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered; often the eagle screamed, / dewy-feathered” (ll. 23-25). The passage offers an example of which of the following?

2. The narrator remarks he "heard nothing there but the noise of” which of the following (l. 18)?

3. The narrator describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?

4. The narrator describes the screaming eagle as which of the following (ll. 24-25)?

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

(see the answer key)

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