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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

4. 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) Journeys.
(b) Few.
(c) Sad.
(d) Believes.

5. In line 35, “the high seas, the tossing salt streams,” how many times is the alliteration iterated?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. The narrator remarks that “no sheltering family / could bring consolation to” which of the following (ll. 25-26)?
(a) My chemical romance.
(b) My brave voyager.
(c) My exceptional skill.
(d) My desolate soul.

15. 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?
(a) Endure.
(b) My.
(c) Seafaring.
(d) Had.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes hail as which of the following (ll. 32-33)?

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

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

4. The narrator describes the "salt streams" as which of the following (l. 35)?

5. The phrase “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth” (l. 32) offers an example of which of the following?

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