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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator describes hail as which of the following (ll. 32-33)?
(a) Badly restrained.
(b) Coldest of grains.
(c) Best of refrains.
(d) Sorest of pains.

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

3. In line 28, “suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) Journeys.
(b) Believes.
(c) Sad.
(d) Few.

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

5. The narrator suggests that the seafarer of the title is which of the following (ll. 35-38)?
(a) His spirit.
(b) The narrator.
(c) God.
(d) The man in town.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes the screaming eagle as which of the following (ll. 24-25)?

2. The narrator describes his doubter as which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

3. The narrator notes suffering in which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

4. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered” (ll. 23-24). The passage offers an example of which of the following?

5. Which of the following came from the north (l. 31)?

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