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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 does the narrator describe a brother's soul (l. 100)?
(a) Full of sin.
(b) Full of food.
(c) Empty of sin.
(d) Empty of meaning.

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

3. 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) Paths of exile.
(c) Whose lot is fairest on land.
(d) Deprived of dear kinsmen.

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. In the phrase “summer’s guardian announces sorrow” (l. 54), relative stress / emphasis DOES NOT fall on the first syllable of which of the following?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Announces.
(c) Guardian.
(d) Summer's.

Short Answer Questions

1. The descriptor “greedy and hungry” (l. 62) modifies which of the following?

2. Line 67, “that earthly goods will endure forever,” offers an example of which of the following?

3. To which of the following does "his fleshly cloak" (l. 94) refer?

4. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?

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

(see the answer key)

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