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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 second sentence of the poem reads “Pinched with cold / were my feet, bound by frost / in cold fetters, while cares seethed / hot around my heart, hunger tore from within / my sea-weary mind” (ll. 8-12). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Parallelism.
(b) Passant.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Pointillism.

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

3. The narrator remarks that none “could bring consolation to my desolate soul” (l. 26). How many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are in the line?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

4. Per the Broadview editors (16-17), when is “The Seafarer” believed to have been written?
(a) The late 900s CE.
(b) The late 800s CE.
(c) The late 1100s CE.
(d) The late 1000s CE.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many stressed / emphasized syllables occur in the opening comment of the poem, “I sing a true song of myself” (l. 1)?

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

4. The narrator describes the screaming eagle as which of the following (ll. 24-25)?

5. 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?

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