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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) Supposition.
(c) Proposition.
(d) Apposition.
2. 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) Paradox.
(c) Passant.
(d) Pointillism.
3. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?
(a) Pox and penury.
(b) Sweet surrender.
(c) Righteous wrath.
(d) Troubled times.
4. Which of the following does the narrator link to the noise of the sea (ll. 18-19)?
(a) The surging surf.
(b) The leaping dolphins.
(c) The ice-cold waves.
(d) The rolling tide.
5. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?
(a) Car selling.
(b) Coarse dwellings.
(c) Care's dwellings.
(d) Care's swellings.
Short Answer Questions
1. The narrator describes the screaming eagle as which of the following (ll. 24-25)?
2. 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?
3. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?
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)?
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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