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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 describes his thoughts as doing which of the following (ll. 33-34)?
(a) Dissuade him.
(b) Compel him.
(c) Suggest to him.
(d) Forbid him.

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) Opposition.
(c) Supposition.
(d) Apposition.

3. In line 28, “suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) Journeys.
(b) Sad.
(c) Believes.
(d) Few.

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

5. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Allegory.

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. 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. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?

4. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?

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

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