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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?
(a) Elegy.
(b) Exegesis.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Epic.

4. In line 30, “have often had to endure in my seafaring,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) Seafaring.
(b) Had.
(c) My.
(d) Endure.

5. Which of the following does the narrator assert is true of “he whose lot is fairest on land” (ll. 12-13)?
(a) He does not care.
(b) He just complains.
(c) He does not know.
(d) He protects and attacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator remarks he "heard nothing there but the noise of” which of the following (l. 18)?

2. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?

3. The narrator comments about “the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men” (l. 21). The comment 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. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?

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