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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 103-124.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?
(a) Groves taking blossom.
(b) Giraffes taking badgers.
(c) Graves taking bodies.
(d) Birds taking flight.

2. In line 55, “bitter in the breast-hoard. He does not know,” which of the following is present?
(a) Curling.
(b) Künstlerroman.
(c) Kenning.
(d) Cunning.

3. In the phrase “were my feet, bound by frost” (l. 9), which of the following words receives relative stress / emphasis?
(a) Bound.
(b) My.
(c) Were.
(d) Feet.

4. The narrator describes his thoughts as doing which of the following (ll. 33-34)?
(a) Compel him.
(b) Suggest to him.
(c) Dissuade him.
(d) Forbid him.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following does the narrator bid the audience to consider (l. 117)?

3. In l. 102, “the gold he had hidden while he lived here on earth,” how many times is the DOMINANT alliteration iterated?

4. In the phrase “he always has longing who hastens to sea” (l. 47), how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

5. In line 30, “have often had to endure in my seafaring,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?

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