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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does the narrator claim a brave person's praise will endure (ll. 78-79)?
(a) A year.
(b) Forever.
(c) Never.
(d) One day.

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

3. The phrase “roams widely over the whale’s home” (l. 60) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Künstlerroman.
(b) Cunning.
(c) Kenning.
(d) Curling.

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). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Kenning.
(b) Künstlerroman.
(c) Cunning.
(d) Curling.

5. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?
(a) Care's swellings.
(b) Care's dwellings.
(c) Car selling.
(d) Coarse dwellings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Per the narrator, what must a man do "before he must be on his way" (ll. 74-79)?

2. Which of the following does the narrator link to the noise of the sea (ll. 18-19)?

3. To what does the phrase “summer’s guardian" refer (l. 54)?

4. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

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

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