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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 that none “could bring consolation to my desolate soul” (l. 26). How many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are in the line?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

2. 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) Alliteration.
(c) Rhyme.
(d) Pentameter.

3. Which of the following does the narrator assert is true of “he whose lot is fairest on land” (ll. 12-13)?
(a) He protects and attacks.
(b) He just complains.
(c) He does not know.
(d) He does not care.

4. The narrator notes suffering in which of the following (ll. 27-30)?
(a) Shackling.
(b) Ceasing.
(c) Sunbathing.
(d) Seafaring.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The narrator suggests that the seafarer of the title is which of the following (ll. 35-38)?

4. 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?

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

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