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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 will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?
(a) Cities are there.
(b) Cities grow fair.
(c) People grow fair.
(d) Cities grow hair.

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

3. What does the narrator claim is a gift that does not help against fear?
(a) Youth.
(b) Girth.
(c) Boldness.
(d) Grace.

4. The narrator remarks that “the wild swan’s song / sometimes served as my music, the gannet’s call / and the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men, / the seagull’s singing for mead-drink” (ll. 19-22). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Carcinization.
(b) Justification.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Superposition.

5. The narrator describes the "salt streams" as which of the following (l. 35)?
(a) Tossing.
(b) Churning.
(c) Flowing.
(d) Seething.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the phrase “were my feet, bound by frost” (l. 9), which of the following words receives relative stress / emphasis?

2. 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?

3. What musician does the narrator claim to have heard (ll. 19-20)?

4. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered” (ll. 23-24). The passage offers an example of which of the following?

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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