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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator claim is a gift that does not help against fear?
(a) Boldness.
(b) Grace.
(c) Girth.
(d) Youth.

2. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?
(a) The pipe.
(b) The drum.
(c) The harp.
(d) The horn.

3. Per the narrator, what must a man do "before he must be on his way" (ll. 74-79)?
(a) Act.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Pack.
(d) Eat.

4. Which of the following does he have "who hastens to sea" (l. 47)?
(a) Longing.
(b) Growing.
(c) Surfing.
(d) Hurting.

5. In the phrase “summer’s guardian announces sorrow” (l. 54), which of the following is present?
(a) Kenning.
(b) Künstlerroman.
(c) Curling.
(d) Cunning.

6. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?
(a) Piles of silver.
(b) Sadness and sorrow.
(c) Joy in the world.
(d) The tumbling waves.

7. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?
(a) Pleasures of man.
(b) Pleasures of food.
(c) Pleasures of woman.
(d) Pleasures of sleep.

8. The narrator remarks that "The joys of the Lord than this dead life" are which of the following (ll. 64-65)?
(a) Colder.
(b) Softer.
(c) Hotter.
(d) Sweeter.

9. Which of the following will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?
(a) Cities darken.
(b) Fields darken.
(c) Fields brighten.
(d) Forests brighten.

10. Which of the following will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?
(a) Cities are there.
(b) Cities grow hair.
(c) People grow fair.
(d) Cities grow fair.

11. To which of the following does "his fleshly cloak" (l. 94) refer?
(a) Body.
(b) Bearskin rug.
(c) Parchment.
(d) Skirt steak.

12. The narrator states that “Joy is laid low, / the earth’s nobility grows old and withers, / just like every man throughout this middle-earth” (ll. 88-90). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Simile.

13. In the phrase “he always has longing who hastens to sea” (l. 47), how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

14. What happens to the earth's nobility (l. 89)?
(a) It eats.
(b) It withers.
(c) It goes away.
(d) It increases.

15. In l. 70, “illness or age or attack by the sword,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) Attack.
(b) The.
(c) By.
(d) Sword.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the phrase “summer’s guardian" refer (l. 54)?

2. How does the narrator describe a brother's soul (l. 100)?

3. What “hangs in the balance before its due time" (ll. 68-69)?

4. The narrator describes sorrow as being which of the following (ll. 54-55)?

5. Which of the following will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?

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