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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Exegesis.
(c) Elegy.
(d) Epic.

3. What “hangs in the balance before its due time" (ll. 68-69)?
(a) One thing.
(b) One of two things.
(c) One of five things.
(d) One of three things.

4. The narrator remarks that “no sheltering family / could bring consolation to” which of the following (ll. 25-26)?
(a) My exceptional skill.
(b) My chemical romance.
(c) My brave voyager.
(d) My desolate soul.

5. To what is the narrator's heart incited irresistibly (l. 63)?
(a) The well.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The lake.
(d) The river.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator remarks that "The joys of the Lord than this dead life" are which of the following (ll. 64-65)?

2. Whence does the narrator's thought fly out (l. 58)?

3. 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?

4. The narrator comments "the curlew’s cry ” which of the following (l. 21)?

5. Where do they walk whom the narrator says endure things unknown by those blessed with ease (ll. 55-57)?

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