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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 describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?
(a) Cars raced swiflty on the street.
(b) Carts heaped up with the harvest.
(c) Casts called out to the crowd.
(d) Cares seethed hot around his heart.

2. In the phrase “to try for myself” (l. 34), relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) For.
(b) Myself.
(c) To.
(d) Try.

3. The phrase “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth” (l. 32) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Rhyme.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Pun.

4. The narrator remarks that “no sheltering family / could bring consolation to” which of the following (ll. 25-26)?
(a) My desolate soul.
(b) My exceptional skill.
(c) My brave voyager.
(d) My chemical romance.

5. In the sentence “And so he who has tasted life’s joy in towns, / suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes, / proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary, / have often had to endure in my seafaring” (ll. 27-30), which of the following does NOT describe the “he” upon whom the narrator remarks?
(a) Has tasted life's joy in towns.
(b) Proud and puffed up with wine.
(c) Weary.
(d) Suffered few sad journeys.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?

2. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” is a descriptor meaning which of the following?

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

4. The narrator remarks he "heard nothing there but the noise of” which of the following (l. 18)?

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

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