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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 line 17, “hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 4

2. 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?
(a) Seafaring.
(b) Endure.
(c) My.
(d) Had.

3. The narrator remarks he "heard nothing there but the noise of” which of the following (l. 18)?
(a) The laughter of men.
(b) Music.
(c) Mead-drink.
(d) The sea.

4. The narrator describes the screaming eagle as which of the following (ll. 24-25)?
(a) Sky-beautiful.
(b) Dewy-feathered.
(c) Family-like.
(d) Carrion-eating.

5. In the phrase “he always has longing who hastens to sea” (l. 47), how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Line 66, “loaned, on land. I will never believe,” offers an example of which of the following?

2. 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). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?

3. The narrator describes the "salt streams" as which of the following (l. 35)?

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

5. In l. 80, “delight among heaven’s host. The days are lost,” how many times is the alliteration iterated?

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