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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 does the narrator remark happened when he "wretched with care, dwelt all winter” (ll. 14-17)?
(a) He took hot showers.
(b) Hot chocolate was served.
(c) Hail flew in showers.
(d) The field filled with flowers.

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

3. The narrator notes that which of the following darkened (l. 31)?
(a) The night-shadow.
(b) The new moon.
(c) The swift winds.
(d) The day-walker.

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

5. The narrator suggests that the seafarer of the title is which of the following (ll. 35-38)?
(a) God.
(b) The narrator.
(c) His spirit.
(d) The man in town.

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

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

8. 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) 4.
(d) 5.

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

10. 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) Curling.
(c) Cunning.
(d) Kenning.

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

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

13. The phrase “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth” (l. 32) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Pun.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Hyperbole.

14. 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) I and sea.
(b) I and nothing.
(c) There and the.
(d) Heard and noise.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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?

4. The narrator comments "the curlew’s cry ” which of the following (l. 21)?

5. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?

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