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

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

3. In line 37, “time and again to travel, so that I might seek,” how many times is the DOMINANT alliteration iterated?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

4. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?
(a) Epic.
(b) Exegesis.
(c) Elegy.
(d) Euphemism.

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) Euphemism.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Pentameter.
(d) Alliteration.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes his thoughts as doing which of the following (ll. 33-34)?

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

3. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?

4. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” offers an example of which of the following?

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

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