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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In line 17, “hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 5.
(b) 4
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

3. The narrator remarks that “I heard nothing there but the noise of the sea” (l. 18). Relative stress / emphasis falls at the beginning of which words in the remark?
(a) Heard and noise.
(b) I and sea.
(c) I and nothing.
(d) There and the.

4. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?
(a) Piles of silver.
(b) Joy in the world.
(c) Sadness and sorrow.
(d) The tumbling waves.

5. The narrator claims to be doubted by which of the following (ll. 27-30)?
(a) He who furnished commencement gowns.
(b) His own heart and mind.
(c) He who has tasted life’s joy in towns.
(d) She who knows the old wisdom.

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

3. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?

4. In line 37, “time and again to travel, so that I might seek,” how many times is the DOMINANT alliteration iterated?

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

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