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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In line 44, “He has no thought of the harp or the taking of rings,” there is an example of which of the following?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Synecdoche.

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

3. What has the fallen noble host lost (l. 86)?
(a) Tacos.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Sadness.

4. In l. 102, “the gold he had hidden while he lived here on earth,” how many times is the DOMINANT alliteration iterated?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

5. What “hangs in the balance before its due time" (ll. 68-69)?
(a) One of five things.
(b) One of three things.
(c) One thing.
(d) One of two things.

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

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

8. The narrator describes sorrow as being which of the following (ll. 54-55)?
(a) Sour in the skull-hoard.
(b) Painful to the purse-string.
(c) Bitter in the breast-hoard.
(d) Stinky in the strong-parts.

9. In the phrase “summer’s guardian announces sorrow” (l. 54), relative stress / emphasis DOES NOT fall on the first syllable of which of the following?
(a) Guardian.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Announces.
(d) Summer's.

10. Where does the narrator claim to stand (l. 90)?
(a) Asgard.
(b) Middle-earth.
(c) Exeter.
(d) Númenor.

11. Who remains to rule the world (l. 87)?
(a) The stay-at-home.
(b) The adventurous.
(c) The weak.
(d) The strong.

12. The phrase “roams widely over the whale’s home” (l. 60) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Cunning.
(b) Künstlerroman.
(c) Kenning.
(d) Curling.

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

14. In the line “my spirit moves with the sea-flood” (l. 59), how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

15. In the phrase “nor so bold in deeds, nor so beloved of his lord” (l. 41), how many times is the alliteration iterated?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does the narrator remark a brother may wish to bury his brother (ll. 97-99)?

2. In l. 92, “the graybeard grieves; he knows his old friends,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

3. Whence does the narrator's thought fly out (l. 58)?

4. To which of the following does "the greybeard" refer (l. 92)?

5. The phrase “that before he must be on his way, he act” (l. 74) offers an example of which of the following?

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