1. The narrator describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?
(a) Carts heaped up with the harvest.
(b) Cars raced swiflty on the street.
(c) Cares seethed hot around his heart.
(d) Casts called out to the crowd.

2. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Apposition.
(b) Opposition.
(c) Supposition.
(d) Proposition.

3. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Epic.
(c) Exegesis.
(d) Elegy.

4. In line 44, “He has no thought of the harp or the taking of rings,” there is an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Synecdoche.

5. What does the narrator note a man will have from his seafaring (l. 42)?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Surprise.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Solace.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Which of the following does the narrator assert is true of “he whose lot is fairest on land” (ll. 12-13)?

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

4. The narrator claims to be doubted by which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

5. Which of the following will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?

(see the answer key)

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