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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What musician does the narrator claim to have heard (ll. 19-20)?
(a) The wild swan.
(b) The red cardinal.
(c) The clucking chicken.
(d) The tame goose.

2. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” is a descriptor meaning which of the following?
(a) Heavyset.
(b) Exultant.
(c) Obtuse.
(d) Intoxicated.

3. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Exegesis.
(c) Elegy.
(d) Epic.

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

5. The narrator comments about “the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men” (l. 21). The comment offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Pentameter.
(c) Rhyme.
(d) Euphemism.

6. 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) Proud and puffed up with wine.
(b) Has tasted life's joy in towns.
(c) Suffered few sad journeys.
(d) Weary.

7. The narrator comments "the curlew’s cry ” which of the following (l. 21)?
(a) Music.
(b) The sea.
(c) The laughter of men.
(d) Mead-drink.

8. What does the narrator describe as urging his spirit onwards (l. 36)?
(a) His soul's caress.
(b) His father's fury.
(c) His heart's desire.
(d) His beloved's blessing.

9. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered; often the eagle screamed, / dewy-feathered” (ll. 23-25). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Anagram.
(b) Aphorism.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Allegory.

10. The narrator remarks that none “could bring consolation to my desolate soul” (l. 26). How many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are in the line?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

11. To what end does the narrator note he is driven (ll. 36-38)?
(a) That he might seek a finer brand.
(b) That he might seek a foreign land.
(c) That he might seek his own homeland.
(d) That he might seek a new fruit stand.

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

13. In line 28, “suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) Few.
(b) Journeys.
(c) Believes.
(d) Sad.

14. The narrator notes a lack of which of the following (ll. 25-26)?
(a) Confirmation.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Integration.
(d) Consolation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 35, “the high seas, the tossing salt streams,” how many times is the alliteration iterated?

2. The narrator notes that which of the following darkened (l. 31)?

3. The narrator describes the screaming eagle as which of the following (ll. 24-25)?

4. In line 37, “time and again to travel, so that I might seek,” how many times is the DOMINANT alliteration iterated?

5. In line 32, “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

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