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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator comments "the curlew’s cry ” which of the following (l. 21)?
(a) Mead-drink.
(b) Music.
(c) The sea.
(d) The laughter of men.

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. 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). In the sentence, “I” is in apposition to which of the following?
(a) Hail flew in showers.
(b) Paths of exile.
(c) Whose lot is fairest on land.
(d) Deprived of dear kinsmen.

9. 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?
(a) My.
(b) Had.
(c) Seafaring.
(d) Endure.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?

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

3. Per the Broadview editors (16-17), when is “The Seafarer” believed to have been written?

4. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” offers an example of which of the following?

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

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