1. Which of the following does the narrator assert is true of “he whose lot is fairest on land” (ll. 12-13)?
(a) He does not care.
(b) He protects and attacks.
(c) He does not know.
(d) He just complains.

2. Which of the following came from the north (l. 31)?
(a) Attack.
(b) Snow.
(c) Rain.
(d) Wind.

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

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

5. 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?
(a) Passant.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Pointillism.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In the phrase “to try for myself” (l. 34), relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?

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

4. The narrator notes a lack of which of the following (ll. 25-26)?

5. In line 30, “have often had to endure in my seafaring,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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