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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 58-102.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?
(a) The Winchester Manuscript.
(b) The Vercelli Book.
(c) The Exeter Book.
(d) The Voynich Manuscript.

2. How often will the narrator believe in the endurance of physical things (ll. 66-67)?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) Never.
(c) Always.
(d) Once.

3. Which of the following does the narrator note is a favorable state (ll. 39-43)?
(a) Beloved of his spouse.
(b) Beloved of his brewer.
(c) Beloved of his boys and girls.
(d) Beloved of his lord.

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

5. Line 92, “the graybeard grieves; he knows his old friends,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Synecdoche.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Simile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?

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

3. How does the narrator describe a brother's soul (l. 100)?

4. The narrator remarks that “That man does not know, / he whose lot is fairest on land, / how I, wretched with care, dwelt all winter / on the ice-cold sea in the paths of exile, / deprived of dear kinsmen, / hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers” (ll. 12-17). In the sentence, “I” is in apposition to which of the following?

5. Where does the narrator claim to stand (l. 90)?

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