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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” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Allegory.

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

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

4. Per the Broadview editors (16-17), when is “The Seafarer” believed to have been written?
(a) The late 800s CE.
(b) The late 1100s CE.
(c) The late 900s CE.
(d) The late 1000s CE.

5. 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?
(a) Weary.
(b) Has tasted life's joy in towns.
(c) Proud and puffed up with wine.
(d) Suffered few sad journeys.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Which of the following does the narrator assert is true of “he whose lot is fairest on land” (ll. 12-13)?

3. 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?

4. Which of the following does the narrator link to the noise of the sea (ll. 18-19)?

5. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” is a descriptor meaning which of the following?

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