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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator assert is true of “he whose lot is fairest on land” (ll. 12-13)?
(a) He protects and attacks.
(b) He does not know.
(c) He just complains.
(d) He does not care.

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

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?
(a) Paths of exile.
(b) Deprived of dear kinsmen.
(c) Whose lot is fairest on land.
(d) Hail flew in showers.

4. The narrator notes a lack of which of the following (ll. 25-26)?
(a) Consolation.
(b) Confirmation.
(c) Isolation.
(d) Integration.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Per the Broadview editors (16-17), when is “The Seafarer” believed to have been written?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

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