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

2. From which of the following does the narrator note the tern replies (l. 23)?
(a) Standing trees.
(b) Ship's stem.
(c) Stone cliffs.
(d) Solemn graves.

3. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Exegesis.
(c) Epic.
(d) Elegy.

4. By which of the following were the narrator's "feet, bound by frost” (ll. 9-10)?
(a) Cold feathers.
(b) Coder flatterers.
(c) Cold fetters.
(d) Cod fetters.

5. The narrator describes the screaming eagle as which of the following (ll. 24-25)?
(a) Carrion-eating.
(b) Sky-beautiful.
(c) Family-like.
(d) Dewy-feathered.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What musician does the narrator claim to have heard (ll. 19-20)?

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?

5. 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?

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