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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 1-26.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Opposition.
(b) Proposition.
(c) Apposition.
(d) Supposition.

2. The narrator comments about “the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men” (l. 21). The comment offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Pentameter.
(c) Rhyme.
(d) Alliteration.

3. The narrator remarks he "heard nothing there but the noise of” which of the following (l. 18)?
(a) Mead-drink.
(b) The laughter of men.
(c) Music.
(d) The sea.

4. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?
(a) The Exeter Book.
(b) The Winchester Manuscript.
(c) The Voynich Manuscript.
(d) The Vercelli Book.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?

3. From which of the following does the narrator note the tern replies (l. 23)?

4. The narrator remarks that “I heard nothing there but the noise of the sea” (l. 18). Relative stress / emphasis falls at the beginning of which words in the remark?

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

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