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

2. Whom does the narrator state might have something in store for a person (l. 43)?
(a) Nobody.
(b) The Lady.
(c) The Lord.
(d) The devil.

3. In line 37, “time and again to travel, so that I might seek,” how many times is the DOMINANT alliteration iterated?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

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?
(a) Hail flew in showers.
(b) Deprived of dear kinsmen.
(c) Whose lot is fairest on land.
(d) Paths of exile.

5. The narrator remarks that "The joys of the Lord than this dead life" are which of the following (ll. 64-65)?
(a) Colder.
(b) Softer.
(c) Hotter.
(d) Sweeter.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?

2. With what does the narrator's spirit move (l. 59)?

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

4. Per the Broadview editors (16-17), when is “The Seafarer” believed to have been written?

5. Which of the following came from the north (l. 31)?

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