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

2. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered; often the eagle screamed, / dewy-feathered” (ll. 23-25). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Anagram.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Aphorism.

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). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Künstlerroman.
(b) Cunning.
(c) Kenning.
(d) Curling.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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. In line 17, “hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

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

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