1. 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 woman.
(c) Pleasures of food.
(d) Pleasures of man.

2. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered” (ll. 23-24). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Apposition.
(b) Opposition.
(c) Proposition.
(d) Supposition.

3. The phrase “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth” (l. 32) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Pun.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Rhyme.

4. The narrator remarks he "heard nothing there but the noise of” which of the following (l. 18)?
(a) Mead-drink.
(b) The sea.
(c) The laughter of men.
(d) Music.

5. By which of the following were the narrator's "feet, bound by frost” (ll. 9-10)?
(a) Cold fetters.
(b) Coder flatterers.
(c) Cold feathers.
(d) Cod fetters.

Short Answer Questions

1. The second sentence of the poem reads “Pinched with cold / were my feet, bound by frost / in cold fetters, while cares seethed / hot around my heart, hunger tore from within / my sea-weary mind” (ll. 8-12). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?

2. The narrator describes which of the following as his thinking part (l. 34)?

3. The narrator describes the "salt streams" as which of the following (l. 35)?

4. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?

5. What musician does the narrator claim to have heard (ll. 19-20)?

(see the answer key)

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