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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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?
(a) Aphorism.
(b) Anagram.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Allegory.

4. The narrator describes which of the following as his thinking part (l. 34)?
(a) Head.
(b) Belly.
(c) Heart.
(d) Buttocks.

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

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

7. 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) Try.
(b) Myself.
(c) For.
(d) To.

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

9. 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.

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

11. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Supposition.
(b) Apposition.
(c) Proposition.
(d) Opposition.

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

13. 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) Heard and noise.
(c) There and the.
(d) I and nothing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. Which of the following came from the north (l. 31)?

5. The narrator remarks he "heard nothing there but the noise of” which of the following (l. 18)?

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