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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Cunning.
(b) Curling.
(c) Kenning.
(d) Künstlerroman.

4. Which of the following does the narrator assert is true of “he whose lot is fairest on land” (ll. 12-13)?
(a) He does not know.
(b) He does not care.
(c) He just complains.
(d) He protects and attacks.

5. The narrator remarks that “I heard nothing there but the noise of the sea” (l. 18). Relative stress / emphasis falls at the beginning of which words in the remark?
(a) There and the.
(b) I and sea.
(c) Heard and noise.
(d) I and nothing.

6. In line 37, “time and again to travel, so that I might seek,” how many times is the DOMINANT alliteration iterated?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

7. The narrator describes the screaming eagle as which of the following (ll. 24-25)?
(a) Sky-beautiful.
(b) Carrion-eating.
(c) Family-like.
(d) Dewy-feathered.

8. The narrator claims to be doubted by which of the following (ll. 27-30)?
(a) He who has tasted life’s joy in towns.
(b) He who furnished commencement gowns.
(c) His own heart and mind.
(d) She who knows the old wisdom.

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) Anaphora.
(b) Anagram.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Aphorism.

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

11. The narrator describes which of the following as his thinking part (l. 34)?
(a) Heart.
(b) Belly.
(c) Buttocks.
(d) Head.

12. By which of the following were the narrator's "feet, bound by frost” (ll. 9-10)?
(a) Cold feathers.
(b) Cod fetters.
(c) Coder flatterers.
(d) Cold fetters.

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

14. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?
(a) Care's dwellings.
(b) Coarse dwellings.
(c) Care's swellings.
(d) Car selling.

15. How many stressed / emphasized syllables occur in the opening comment of the poem, “I sing a true song of myself” (l. 1)?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The narrator notes suffering in which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

4. The phrase “in days of toil / I’ve often suffered troubled times, / hard heartache” (ll. 2-4) offers examples of which of the following?

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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