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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 27-38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following came from the north (l. 31)?
(a) Wind.
(b) Snow.
(c) Attack.
(d) Rain.

2. The narrator notes that which of the following darkened (l. 31)?
(a) The new moon.
(b) The swift winds.
(c) The day-walker.
(d) The night-shadow.

3. 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)?
(a) Dead kinsmen.
(b) Dear kinsmen.
(c) Dear kissing.
(d) Deer hunting.

4. 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) Justification.
(b) Carcinization.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Superposition.

5. Which of the following does the narrator link to the noise of the sea (ll. 18-19)?
(a) The leaping dolphins.
(b) The rolling tide.
(c) The surging surf.
(d) The ice-cold waves.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the phrase “to try for myself” (l. 34), relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?

2. By which of the following were the narrator's "feet, bound by frost” (ll. 9-10)?

3. 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?

4. How many stressed / emphasized syllables occur in the opening comment of the poem, “I sing a true song of myself” (l. 1)?

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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