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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 remarks he "heard nothing there but the noise of” which of the following (l. 18)?
(a) Mead-drink.
(b) Music.
(c) The laughter of men.
(d) The sea.

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

3. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?
(a) The Vercelli Book.
(b) The Exeter Book.
(c) The Winchester Manuscript.
(d) The Voynich Manuscript.

4. 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?
(a) Endure.
(b) Had.
(c) My.
(d) Seafaring.

5. 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) Anagram.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Aphorism.
(d) Anaphora.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following does the narrator link to the noise of the sea (ll. 18-19)?

3. What does the narrator describe as urging his spirit onwards (l. 36)?

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

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

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