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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 1-26.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The narrator comments "the curlew’s cry ” which of the following (l. 21)?
(a) Music.
(b) The sea.
(c) Mead-drink.
(d) The laughter of men.
2. In the phrase “were my feet, bound by frost” (l. 9), which of the following words receives relative stress / emphasis?
(a) Feet.
(b) Were.
(c) My.
(d) Bound.
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)?
(a) Dear kissing.
(b) Dead kinsmen.
(c) Deer hunting.
(d) Dear kinsmen.
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) Pointillism.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Passant.
(d) Parallelism.
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). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Künstlerroman.
(b) Cunning.
(c) Curling.
(d) Kenning.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. The narrator comments about “the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men” (l. 21). The comment offers an example of which of the following?
4. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?
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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