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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 28, “suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?

2. In the phrase “were my feet, bound by frost” (l. 9), which of the following words receives relative stress / emphasis?

3. In line 30, “have often had to endure in my seafaring,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?

4. In line 37, “time and again to travel, so that I might seek,” how many times is the DOMINANT alliteration iterated?

5. Which of the following came from the north (l. 31)?

(see the answer key)

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