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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 notes suffering in which of the following (ll. 27-30)?
(a) Shackling.
(b) Ceasing.
(c) Sunbathing.
(d) Seafaring.

2. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered” (ll. 23-24). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Apposition.
(b) Proposition.
(c) Opposition.
(d) Supposition.

3. The narrator describes sorrow as being which of the following (ll. 54-55)?
(a) Sour in the skull-hoard.
(b) Bitter in the breast-hoard.
(c) Stinky in the strong-parts.
(d) Painful to the purse-string.

4. To what is the narrator's heart incited irresistibly (l. 63)?
(a) The river.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The well.
(d) The lake.

5. The descriptor “greedy and hungry” (l. 62) modifies which of the following?
(a) My breast.
(b) Me.
(c) The sea-flood.
(d) My spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” is a descriptor meaning which of the following?

2. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?

3. 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)?

4. The narrator remarks that “no sheltering family / could bring consolation to” which of the following (ll. 25-26)?

5. The phrase "given up to the earth" (l. 93) is a euphemism for which of the following?

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