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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 1-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In line 17, “hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 4
(d) 2.

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). The sentence offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Künstlerroman.
(b) Kenning.
(c) Cunning.
(d) Curling.

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). In the sentence, “I” is in apposition to which of the following?
(a) Whose lot is fairest on land.
(b) Deprived of dear kinsmen.
(c) Paths of exile.
(d) Hail flew in showers.

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) Paradox.
(b) Pointillism.
(c) Passant.
(d) Parallelism.

5. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?
(a) Troubled times.
(b) Sweet surrender.
(c) Righteous wrath.
(d) Pox and penury.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator remark happened when he "wretched with care, dwelt all winter” (ll. 14-17)?

2. The phrase “in days of toil / I’ve often suffered troubled times, / hard heartache” (ll. 2-4) offers examples of which of the following?

3. By which of the following were the narrator's "feet, bound by frost” (ll. 9-10)?

4. The narrator remarks that “no sheltering family / could bring consolation to” which of the following (ll. 25-26)?

5. The narrator describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?

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