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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator link to the noise of the sea (ll. 18-19)?
(a) The leaping dolphins.
(b) The rolling tide.
(c) The surging surf.
(d) The ice-cold waves.

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

3. 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) Deer hunting.
(c) Dead kinsmen.
(d) Dear kissing.

4. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?
(a) Care's swellings.
(b) Car selling.
(c) Coarse dwellings.
(d) Care's dwellings.

5. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?
(a) Pox and penury.
(b) Troubled times.
(c) Righteous wrath.
(d) Sweet surrender.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes his doubter as which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

2. The narrator suggests that the seafarer of the title is which of the following (ll. 35-38)?

3. 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?

4. The narrator describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?

5. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” is a descriptor meaning which of the following?

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