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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 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?
(a) Supposition.
(b) Proposition.
(c) Opposition.
(d) Apposition.

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

3. 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) Paradox.
(d) Passant.

4. The narrator remarks that “no sheltering family / could bring consolation to” which of the following (ll. 25-26)?
(a) My chemical romance.
(b) My desolate soul.
(c) My exceptional skill.
(d) My brave voyager.

5. 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?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Pentameter.
(d) Rhyme.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator notes a lack of which of the following (ll. 25-26)?

2. The narrator describes the screaming eagle as which of the following (ll. 24-25)?

3. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?

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

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

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