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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 claims to be doubted by which of the following (ll. 27-30)?
(a) He who furnished commencement gowns.
(b) He who has tasted life’s joy in towns.
(c) She who knows the old wisdom.
(d) His own heart and mind.

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

3. 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.

4. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?
(a) Coarse dwellings.
(b) Car selling.
(c) Care's swellings.
(d) Care's dwellings.

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?
(a) Cunning.
(b) Curling.
(c) Kenning.
(d) Künstlerroman.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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)?

4. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

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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