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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following came from the north (l. 31)?
(a) Snow.
(b) Wind.
(c) Rain.
(d) Attack.

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

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

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

5. 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) Superposition.
(b) Carcinization.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Justification.

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

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

8. 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) Kenning.
(b) Künstlerroman.
(c) Cunning.
(d) Curling.

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

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

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

12. The phrase “in days of toil / I’ve often suffered troubled times, / hard heartache” (ll. 2-4) offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Rhyme.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Pentameter.
(d) Alliteration.

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

14. The narrator describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?
(a) Cares seethed hot around his heart.
(b) Cars raced swiflty on the street.
(c) Carts heaped up with the harvest.
(d) Casts called out to the crowd.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By which of the following were the narrator's "feet, bound by frost” (ll. 9-10)?

2. Which of the following does the narrator assert is true of “he whose lot is fairest on land” (ll. 12-13)?

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

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

5. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?

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