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

2. 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?
(a) Carcinization.
(b) Justification.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Superposition.

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

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

5. The phrase “in days of toil / I’ve often suffered troubled times, / hard heartache” (ll. 2-4) offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Pentameter.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Rhyme.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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)?

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