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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following does the narrator link to the noise of the sea (ll. 18-19)?
(a) The ice-cold waves.
(b) The surging surf.
(c) The rolling tide.
(d) The leaping dolphins.

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

4. Per the Broadview editors (16-17), when is “The Seafarer” believed to have been written?
(a) The late 800s CE.
(b) The late 1000s CE.
(c) The late 1100s CE.
(d) The late 900s CE.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. From which of the following does the narrator note the tern replies (l. 23)?
(a) Standing trees.
(b) Solemn graves.
(c) Stone cliffs.
(d) Ship's stem.

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

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

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

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

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

5. Of which of the following is narrator deprived when he “wretched with care, dwelt all winter / on the ice-cold sea in the paths of exile" (ll. 13-16)?

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