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

2. 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) Passant.
(c) Pointillism.
(d) Parallelism.

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

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

5. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?
(a) Car selling.
(b) Care's dwellings.
(c) Care's swellings.
(d) Coarse dwellings.

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

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

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)?

5. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?

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