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1. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Epic.
(c) Exegesis.
(d) Elegy.

2. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?
(a) The Exeter Book.
(b) The Voynich Manuscript.
(c) The Vercelli Book.
(d) The Winchester Manuscript.

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

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

5. 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) Euphemism.
(c) Rhyme.
(d) Alliteration.

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

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