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

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) Superposition.
(d) Juxtaposition.

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

4. The narrator describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?
(a) Carts heaped up with the harvest.
(b) Casts called out to the crowd.
(c) Cares seethed hot around his heart.
(d) Cars raced swiflty on the street.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The phrase “in days of toil / I’ve often suffered troubled times, / hard heartache” (ll. 2-4) offers examples of which of the following?

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

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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