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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 renamings does the narrator give "the Holy One" (ll. 121-14)?
(a) Highest King.
(b) Mighty One.
(c) Eternal Lord.
(d) Undying Master.

2. In the sentence “And so he who has tasted life’s joy in towns, / suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes, / proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary, / have often had to endure in my seafaring” (ll. 27-30), which of the following does NOT describe the “he” upon whom the narrator remarks?
(a) Suffered few sad journeys.
(b) Proud and puffed up with wine.
(c) Weary.
(d) Has tasted life's joy in towns.

3. The narrator remarks that “the wild swan’s song / sometimes served as my music, the gannet’s call / and the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men, / the seagull’s singing for mead-drink” (ll. 19-22). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Pointillism.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Passant.

4. Line 83, “nor gold-gives as there once were,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Kenning.
(b) Künstlerroman.
(c) Curling.
(d) Cunning.

5. In the phrase “nor so bold in deeds, nor so beloved of his lord” (l. 41), how many times is the alliteration iterated?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator note is a favorable state (ll. 39-43)?

2. Which of the following does the narrator bid the audience to consider (l. 117-18)?

3. The narrator describes which of the following as his thinking part (l. 34)?

4. Per the narrator, what must a man do "before he must be on his way" (ll. 74-79)?

5. The narrator claims to be doubted by which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

(see the answer key)

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