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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 notes that which of the following darkened (l. 31)?
(a) The swift winds.
(b) The day-walker.
(c) The new moon.
(d) The night-shadow.

2. By which of the following were the narrator's "feet, bound by frost” (ll. 9-10)?
(a) Cod fetters.
(b) Coder flatterers.
(c) Cold fetters.
(d) Cold feathers.

3. 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) Passant.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Pointillism.

4. In line 32, “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

5. The narrator comments about “the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men” (l. 21). The comment offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Pentameter.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Rhyme.
(d) Alliteration.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In line 35, “the high seas, the tossing salt streams,” how many times is the alliteration iterated?

3. 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?

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

5. The narrator describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?

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