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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 suggests that the seafarer of the title is which of the following (ll. 35-38)?
(a) The narrator.
(b) God.
(c) The man in town.
(d) His spirit.

2. The narrator states that “Joy is laid low, / the earth’s nobility grows old and withers, / just like every man throughout this middle-earth” (ll. 88-90). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Analogy.

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

4. Which of the following does the narrator note is a favorable state (ll. 39-43)?
(a) Beloved of his lord.
(b) Beloved of his brewer.
(c) Beloved of his spouse.
(d) Beloved of his boys and girls.

5. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” is a descriptor meaning which of the following?
(a) Exultant.
(b) Heavyset.
(c) Obtuse.
(d) Intoxicated.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many stressed / emphasized syllables occur in the opening comment of the poem, “I sing a true song of myself” (l. 1)?

2. Per the narrator, what "is the best eulogy" (ll. 72-73)?

3. Line 92, “the graybeard grieves; he knows his old friends,” offers an example of which of the following?

4. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?

5. Which of the following will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?

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