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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 39-57.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator describes his doubter as which of the following (ll. 27-30)?
(a) He has traveled in many journeys.
(b) He has enjoyed few happy journeys.
(c) He has fought in many tourneys.
(d) He has suffered few sad journeys.

2. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

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

4. Where do they walk whom the narrator says endure things unknown by those blessed with ease (ll. 55-57)?
(a) Paths of exile.
(b) Streets of the city.
(c) Roads of riun.
(d) Highways of heaven.

5. The narrator notes that which of the following darkened (l. 31)?
(a) The day-walker.
(b) The night-shadow.
(c) The swift winds.
(d) The new moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 37, “time and again to travel, so that I might seek,” how many times is the DOMINANT alliteration iterated?

2. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” is a descriptor meaning which of the following?

3. In the phrase “were my feet, bound by frost” (l. 9), which of the following words receives relative stress / emphasis?

4. 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?

5. In line 44, “He has no thought of the harp or the taking of rings,” there is an example of which of the following?

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