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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 the "salt streams" as which of the following (l. 35)?
(a) Tossing.
(b) Flowing.
(c) Churning.
(d) Seething.

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

3. To what end does the narrator note he is driven (ll. 36-38)?
(a) That he might seek a foreign land.
(b) That he might seek his own homeland.
(c) That he might seek a new fruit stand.
(d) That he might seek a finer brand.

4. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?
(a) The Voynich Manuscript.
(b) The Exeter Book.
(c) The Winchester Manuscript.
(d) The Vercelli Book.

5. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?

2. Which of the following does the narrator remark happened when he "wretched with care, dwelt all winter” (ll. 14-17)?

3. The narrator suggests that the seafarer of the title is which of the following (ll. 35-38)?

4. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered; often the eagle screamed, / dewy-feathered” (ll. 23-25). The passage offers an example of which of the following?

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

(see the answer key)

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