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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the phrase “were my feet, bound by frost” (l. 9), which of the following words receives relative stress / emphasis?
(a) Were.
(b) Bound.
(c) My.
(d) Feet.

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

3. In the phrase “to try for myself” (l. 34), relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) Try.
(b) Myself.
(c) To.
(d) For.

4. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Per the Broadview editors (16-17), when is “The Seafarer” believed to have been written?

3. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” is a descriptor meaning which of the following?

4. Which of the following does the narrator assert is true of “he whose lot is fairest on land” (ll. 12-13)?

5. 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)?

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