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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What musician does the narrator claim to have heard (ll. 19-20)?
(a) The clucking chicken.
(b) The tame goose.
(c) The red cardinal.
(d) The wild swan.

2. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Antithesis.

3. Which of the following does the narrator remark happened when he "wretched with care, dwelt all winter” (ll. 14-17)?
(a) The field filled with flowers.
(b) Hot chocolate was served.
(c) He took hot showers.
(d) Hail flew in showers.

4. The narrator remarks that “That man does not know, / he whose lot is fairest on land, / how I, wretched with care, dwelt all winter / on the ice-cold sea in the paths of exile, / deprived of dear kinsmen, / hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers” (ll. 12-17). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Cunning.
(b) Künstlerroman.
(c) Curling.
(d) Kenning.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The phrase “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth” (l. 32) offers an example of which of the following?

3. The narrator notes that which of the following darkened (l. 31)?

4. From which of the following does the narrator note the tern replies (l. 23)?

5. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

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