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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” is a descriptor meaning which of the following?
(a) Obtuse.
(b) Exultant.
(c) Heavyset.
(d) Intoxicated.

2. The narrator remarks that “the wild swan’s song / sometimes served as my music, the gannet’s call / and the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men, / the seagull’s singing for mead-drink” (ll. 19-22). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Pointillism.
(c) Passant.
(d) Parallelism.

3. 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) 2.
(d) 3.

4. The narrator describes the "salt streams" as which of the following (l. 35)?
(a) Churning.
(b) Seething.
(c) Flowing.
(d) Tossing.

5. From which of the following does the narrator note the tern replies (l. 23)?
(a) Standing trees.
(b) Ship's stem.
(c) Stone cliffs.
(d) Solemn graves.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator notes a lack of which of the following (ll. 25-26)?

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

3. The narrator claims to be doubted by which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

4. In the phrase “to try for myself” (l. 34), relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?

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). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?

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