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

2. How many stressed / emphasized syllables occur in the opening comment of the poem, “I sing a true song of myself” (l. 1)?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

3. 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 does not know.
(c) He just complains.
(d) He protects and attacks.

4. 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?
(a) Pentameter.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Euphemism.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. The narrator remarks that “I heard nothing there but the noise of the sea” (l. 18). Relative stress / emphasis falls at the beginning of which words in the remark?

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

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

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