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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 1-26.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?
(a) Epic.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Exegesis.
(d) Elegy.
2. 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)?
(a) Deer hunting.
(b) Dear kissing.
(c) Dead kinsmen.
(d) Dear kinsmen.
3. How many stressed / emphasized syllables occur in the opening comment of the poem, “I sing a true song of myself” (l. 1)?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.
4. 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) Parallelism.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Pointillism.
(d) Passant.
5. The narrator remarks that “I heard nothing there but the noise of the sea” (l. 18). Relative stress / emphasis falls at the beginning of which words in the remark?
(a) There and the.
(b) I and sea.
(c) Heard and noise.
(d) I and nothing.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?
3. 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). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?
4. The narrator describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?
5. In the phrase “were my feet, bound by frost” (l. 9), which of the following words receives relative stress / emphasis?
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