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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Per the Broadview editors (16-17), when is “The Seafarer” believed to have been written?
(a) The late 1100s CE.
(b) The late 800s CE.
(c) The late 900s CE.
(d) The late 1000s CE.

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)?
(a) Dear kinsmen.
(b) Dead kinsmen.
(c) Deer hunting.
(d) Dear kissing.

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

4. The narrator comments "the curlew’s cry ” which of the following (l. 21)?
(a) The laughter of men.
(b) Mead-drink.
(c) Music.
(d) The sea.

5. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?
(a) Pox and penury.
(b) Sweet surrender.
(c) Troubled times.
(d) Righteous wrath.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the phrase “were my feet, bound by frost” (l. 9), which of the following words receives relative stress / emphasis?

2. The narrator remarks that “no sheltering family / could bring consolation to” which of the following (ll. 25-26)?

3. 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?

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

5. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?

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