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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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). In the sentence, “I” is in apposition to which of the following?
(a) Whose lot is fairest on land.
(b) Hail flew in showers.
(c) Paths of exile.
(d) Deprived of dear kinsmen.

2. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?
(a) The Exeter Book.
(b) The Voynich Manuscript.
(c) The Vercelli Book.
(d) The Winchester Manuscript.

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

4. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?
(a) Righteous wrath.
(b) Troubled times.
(c) Pox and penury.
(d) Sweet surrender.

5. The narrator describes hail as which of the following (ll. 32-33)?
(a) Sorest of pains.
(b) Coldest of grains.
(c) Badly restrained.
(d) Best of refrains.

6. In line 32, “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

7. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Allegory.

8. The narrator remarks he "heard nothing there but the noise of” which of the following (l. 18)?
(a) Mead-drink.
(b) The laughter of men.
(c) The sea.
(d) Music.

9. The second sentence of the poem reads “Pinched with cold / were my feet, bound by frost / in cold fetters, while cares seethed / hot around my heart, hunger tore from within / my sea-weary mind” (ll. 8-12). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Passant.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Pointillism.

10. The narrator describes his doubter as which of the following (ll. 27-30)?
(a) He has suffered few sad journeys.
(b) He has fought in many tourneys.
(c) He has traveled in many journeys.
(d) He has enjoyed few happy journeys.

11. 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) Rhyme.
(b) Pentameter.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Alliteration.

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

13. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered” (ll. 23-24). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Opposition.
(b) Apposition.
(c) Proposition.
(d) Supposition.

14. 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) Weary.
(c) Has tasted life's joy in towns.
(d) Suffered few sad journeys.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” offers an example of which of the following?

2. 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?

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

4. The narrator describes his thoughts as doing which of the following (ll. 33-34)?

5. In the phrase “to try for myself” (l. 34), relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?

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