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

2. In the phrase “summer’s guardian announces sorrow” (l. 54), which of the following is present?
(a) Kenning.
(b) Curling.
(c) Cunning.
(d) Künstlerroman.

3. To what does the phrase “summer’s guardian" refer (l. 54)?
(a) Eagle.
(b) Crow.
(c) Egret.
(d) Cuckoo.

4. Which of the following will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?
(a) People grow fair.
(b) Cities are there.
(c) Cities grow hair.
(d) Cities grow fair.

5. 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?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Pointillism.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Passant.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes his thoughts as doing which of the following (ll. 33-34)?

2. Which of the following does the narrator remark happened when he "wretched with care, dwelt all winter” (ll. 14-17)?

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. Whom does the narrator state might have something in store for a person (l. 43)?

5. 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)?

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