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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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)?
(a) Deer hunting.
(b) Dear kissing.
(c) Dead kinsmen.
(d) Dear kinsmen.

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

3. What musician does the narrator claim to have heard (ll. 19-20)?
(a) The clucking chicken.
(b) The red cardinal.
(c) The tame goose.
(d) The wild swan.

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. In the phrase “to try for myself” (l. 34), relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) Myself.
(b) Try.
(c) To.
(d) For.

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

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

11. In line 17, “hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4
(d) 5.

12. Which of the following does the narrator assert is true of “he whose lot is fairest on land” (ll. 12-13)?
(a) He just complains.
(b) He protects and attacks.
(c) He does not know.
(d) He does not care.

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

14. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?
(a) Coarse dwellings.
(b) Care's swellings.
(c) Car selling.
(d) Care's dwellings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?

2. 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?

3. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” offers an example of which of the following?

4. To what end does the narrator note he is driven (ll. 36-38)?

5. The narrator notes that which of the following darkened (l. 31)?

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