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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) Righteous wrath.
(b) Sweet surrender.
(c) Pox and penury.
(d) Troubled times.

2. By which of the following were the narrator's "feet, bound by frost” (ll. 9-10)?
(a) Coder flatterers.
(b) Cod fetters.
(c) Cold fetters.
(d) Cold feathers.

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) Paradox.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Pointillism.
(d) Passant.

4. 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) Were.
(d) My.

5. What musician does the narrator claim to have heard (ll. 19-20)?
(a) The clucking chicken.
(b) The wild swan.
(c) The tame goose.
(d) The red cardinal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator assert is true of “he whose lot is fairest on land” (ll. 12-13)?

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

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?

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

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

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