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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In line 17, “hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 4
(d) 3.

2. The narrator describes the screaming eagle as which of the following (ll. 24-25)?
(a) Dewy-feathered.
(b) Sky-beautiful.
(c) Carrion-eating.
(d) Family-like.

3. In the phrase “were my feet, bound by frost” (l. 9), which of the following words receives relative stress / emphasis?
(a) My.
(b) Bound.
(c) Feet.
(d) Were.

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?
(a) I and nothing.
(b) Heard and noise.
(c) There and the.
(d) I and sea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator link to the noise of the sea (ll. 18-19)?

2. 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)?

3. The narrator comments "the curlew’s cry ” which of the following (l. 21)?

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

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

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