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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of which of the following is narrator deprived when he “wretched with care, dwelt all winter / on the ice-cold sea in the paths of exile" (ll. 13-16)?
(a) Dear kinsmen.
(b) Dear kissing.
(c) Deer hunting.
(d) Dead kinsmen.

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?
(a) Passant.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Pointillism.
(d) Parallelism.

3. The narrator notes a lack of which of the following (ll. 25-26)?
(a) Confirmation.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Consolation.
(d) Integration.

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

5. Which of the following came from the north (l. 31)?
(a) Attack.
(b) Rain.
(c) Snow.
(d) Wind.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes hail as which of the following (ll. 32-33)?

2. The narrator notes suffering in which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

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

4. In the sentence “And so he who has tasted life’s joy in towns, / suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes, / proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary, / have often had to endure in my seafaring” (ll. 27-30), which of the following does NOT describe the “he” upon whom the narrator remarks?

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?

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