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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In l. 80, “delight among heaven’s host. The days are lost,” there is an example of which of the following?
(a) Enjambment.
(b) End-stop.
(c) Enthrallment.
(d) Euphemism.

2. 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) Passant.
(b) Pointillism.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Parallelism.

3. Line 92, “the graybeard grieves; he knows his old friends,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Simile.
(d) Synecdoche.

4. With which of the following does the narrator note "a brother might wish to strew his brother's / grave" (ll. 97-98)?
(a) Gold.
(b) Beryl.
(c) Silver.
(d) Grains.

5. The narrator describes the "salt streams" as which of the following (l. 35)?
(a) Seething.
(b) Tossing.
(c) Flowing.
(d) Churning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator link to the noise of the sea (ll. 18-19)?

2. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?

3. In line 110, “steadfast in its promises, pure in its ways,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

4. What happens to the earth's nobility (l. 89)?

5. Where does the narrator claim to stand (l. 90)?

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