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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 27-38.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” is a descriptor meaning which of the following?
(a) Exultant.
(b) Intoxicated.
(c) Obtuse.
(d) Heavyset.

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

5. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered; often the eagle screamed, / dewy-feathered” (ll. 23-25). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Aphorism.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Anagram.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator suggests that the seafarer of the title is which of the following (ll. 35-38)?

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

3. The narrator describes hail as which of the following (ll. 32-33)?

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

5. 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?

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