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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 27-38.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Per the Broadview editors (16-17), when is “The Seafarer” believed to have been written?
(a) The late 800s CE.
(b) The late 1000s CE.
(c) The late 900s CE.
(d) The late 1100s CE.
2. 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?
(a) Whose lot is fairest on land.
(b) Hail flew in showers.
(c) Paths of exile.
(d) Deprived of dear kinsmen.
3. The narrator remarks that “the wild swan’s song / sometimes served as my music, the gannet’s call / and the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men, / the seagull’s singing for mead-drink” (ll. 19-22). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Passant.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Pointillism.
(d) Paradox.
4. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Opposition.
(b) Proposition.
(c) Supposition.
(d) Apposition.
5. Which of the following came from the north (l. 31)?
(a) Attack.
(b) Snow.
(c) Wind.
(d) Rain.
Short Answer Questions
1. The narrator describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?
2. The narrator notes that which of the following darkened (l. 31)?
3. Of which of the following is narrator deprived when he “wretched with care, dwelt all winter / on the ice-cold sea in the paths of exile" (ll. 13-16)?
4. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?
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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