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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 39-57.
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) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.
2. 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?
(a) Proposition.
(b) Apposition.
(c) Opposition.
(d) Supposition.
3. The narrator describes hail as which of the following (ll. 32-33)?
(a) Best of refrains.
(b) Badly restrained.
(c) Coldest of grains.
(d) Sorest of pains.
4. To what does the phrase “summer’s guardian" refer (l. 54)?
(a) Eagle.
(b) Egret.
(c) Cuckoo.
(d) Crow.
5. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?
(a) Pleasures of woman.
(b) Pleasures of food.
(c) Pleasures of man.
(d) Pleasures of sleep.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?
2. The second sentence of the poem reads “Pinched with cold / were my feet, bound by frost / in cold fetters, while cares seethed / hot around my heart, hunger tore from within / my sea-weary mind” (ll. 8-12). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?
3. How many stressed / emphasized syllables occur in the opening comment of the poem, “I sing a true song of myself” (l. 1)?
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). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?
5. By which of the following were the narrator's "feet, bound by frost” (ll. 9-10)?
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