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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 27-38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of which of the following is narrator deprived when he “wretched with care, dwelt all winter / on the ice-cold sea in the paths of exile" (ll. 13-16)?
(a) Dear kissing.
(b) Deer hunting.
(c) Dear kinsmen.
(d) Dead kinsmen.

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

3. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?
(a) Troubled times.
(b) Pox and penury.
(c) Righteous wrath.
(d) Sweet surrender.

4. The narrator suggests that the seafarer of the title is which of the following (ll. 35-38)?
(a) The narrator.
(b) God.
(c) The man in town.
(d) His spirit.

5. 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). In the sentence, “I” is in apposition to which of the following?
(a) Paths of exile.
(b) Whose lot is fairest on land.
(c) Deprived of dear kinsmen.
(d) Hail flew in showers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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