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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” is a descriptor meaning which of the following?
(a) Exultant.
(b) Heavyset.
(c) Intoxicated.
(d) Obtuse.

4. In the phrase “to try for myself” (l. 34), relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) Try.
(b) Myself.
(c) For.
(d) To.

5. In line 35, “the high seas, the tossing salt streams,” how many times is the alliteration iterated?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?

2. 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)?

3. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” offers an example of which of the following?

4. In the sentence “And so he who has tasted life’s joy in towns, / suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes, / proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary, / have often had to endure in my seafaring” (ll. 27-30), which of the following does NOT describe the “he” upon whom the narrator remarks?

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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