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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 does the narrator describe as urging his spirit onwards (l. 36)?
(a) His soul's caress.
(b) His father's fury.
(c) His beloved's blessing.
(d) His heart's desire.

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

3. In line 17, “hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4

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

5. The narrator remarks he "heard nothing there but the noise of” which of the following (l. 18)?
(a) The sea.
(b) The laughter of men.
(c) Music.
(d) Mead-drink.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The narrator claims to be doubted by which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

4. The narrator describes which of the following as his thinking part (l. 34)?

5. In line 32, “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

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