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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 39-57.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Anaphora.

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?
(a) Paths of exile.
(b) Hail flew in showers.
(c) Deprived of dear kinsmen.
(d) Whose lot is fairest on land.

5. 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) Seafaring.
(c) Had.
(d) My.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the narrator state might have something in store for a person (l. 43)?

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

3. What does the narrator note a man will have from his seafaring (l. 42)?

4. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?

5. Which of the following does the narrator note is a favorable state (ll. 39-43)?

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