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

2. 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) Sad.
(c) Few.
(d) Believes.

3. 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.

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

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

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

7. The narrator notes suffering in which of the following (ll. 27-30)?
(a) Shackling.
(b) Sunbathing.
(c) Seafaring.
(d) Ceasing.

8. The narrator describes his doubter as which of the following (ll. 27-30)?
(a) He has traveled in many journeys.
(b) He has enjoyed few happy journeys.
(c) He has fought in many tourneys.
(d) He has suffered few sad journeys.

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

15. How many stressed / emphasized syllables occur in the opening comment of the poem, “I sing a true song of myself” (l. 1)?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The narrator remarks that none “could bring consolation to my desolate soul” (l. 26). How many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are in the line?

3. 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?

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

5. In line 35, “the high seas, the tossing salt streams,” how many times is the alliteration iterated?

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