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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) Deer hunting.
(b) Dead kinsmen.
(c) Dear kinsmen.
(d) Dear kissing.

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

3. 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?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Aphorism.
(d) Anagram.

4. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Supposition.
(b) Opposition.
(c) Apposition.
(d) Proposition.

5. Which of the following does the narrator remark happened when he "wretched with care, dwelt all winter” (ll. 14-17)?
(a) Hot chocolate was served.
(b) Hail flew in showers.
(c) The field filled with flowers.
(d) He took hot showers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator comments "the curlew’s cry ” which of the following (l. 21)?

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

4. From which of the following does the narrator note the tern replies (l. 23)?

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

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