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

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

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) Paradox.
(c) Pointillism.
(d) Passant.

4. The narrator remarks that “That man does not know, / he whose lot is fairest on land, / how I, wretched with care, dwelt all winter / on the ice-cold sea in the paths of exile, / deprived of dear kinsmen, / hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers” (ll. 12-17). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Künstlerroman.
(b) Cunning.
(c) Kenning.
(d) Curling.

5. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?
(a) Coarse dwellings.
(b) Care's dwellings.
(c) Car selling.
(d) Care's swellings.

Short Answer Questions

1. By which of the following were the narrator's "feet, bound by frost” (ll. 9-10)?

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

3. The narrator remarks that “That man does not know, / he whose lot is fairest on land, / how I, wretched with care, dwelt all winter / on the ice-cold sea in the paths of exile, / deprived of dear kinsmen, / hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers” (ll. 12-17). In the sentence, “I” is in apposition to which of the following?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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