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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?
(a) Pleasures of man.
(b) Pleasures of food.
(c) Pleasures of sleep.
(d) Pleasures of woman.

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

3. Where do they walk whom the narrator says endure things unknown by those blessed with ease (ll. 55-57)?
(a) Highways of heaven.
(b) Paths of exile.
(c) Roads of riun.
(d) Streets of the city.

4. To which of the following does "his fleshly cloak" (l. 94) refer?
(a) Parchment.
(b) Bearskin rug.
(c) Skirt steak.
(d) Body.

5. The narrator describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?
(a) Cars raced swiflty on the street.
(b) Cares seethed hot around his heart.
(c) Casts called out to the crowd.
(d) Carts heaped up with the harvest.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator notes suffering in which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

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

3. In the sentence “And so he who has tasted life’s joy in towns, / suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes, / proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary, / have often had to endure in my seafaring” (ll. 27-30), which of the following does NOT describe the “he” upon whom the narrator remarks?

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

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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