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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In line 37, “time and again to travel, so that I might seek,” how many times is the DOMINANT alliteration iterated?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

2. The narrator describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?
(a) Casts called out to the crowd.
(b) Cares seethed hot around his heart.
(c) Carts heaped up with the harvest.
(d) Cars raced swiflty on the street.

3. What does the narrator note a man will have from his seafaring (l. 42)?
(a) Solace.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Surprise.

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

5. Which of the following does the narrator remark happened when he "wretched with care, dwelt all winter” (ll. 14-17)?
(a) The field filled with flowers.
(b) Hot chocolate was served.
(c) He took hot showers.
(d) Hail flew in showers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 35, “the high seas, the tossing salt streams,” how many times is the alliteration iterated?

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

3. The narrator notes suffering in which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

4. The narrator claims to be doubted by which of the following (ll. 27-30)?

5. 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?

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