The Seafarer Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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The Seafarer Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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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 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) Justification.
(b) Carcinization.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Superposition.

2. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?
(a) The Exeter Book.
(b) The Winchester Manuscript.
(c) The Voynich Manuscript.
(d) The Vercelli Book.

3. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Supposition.
(b) Apposition.
(c) Proposition.
(d) Opposition.

4. 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?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Passant.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Pointillism.

5. To what end does the narrator note he is driven (ll. 36-38)?
(a) That he might seek his own homeland.
(b) That he might seek a new fruit stand.
(c) That he might seek a foreign land.
(d) That he might seek a finer brand.

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. How many stressed / emphasized syllables occur in the opening comment of the poem, “I sing a true song of myself” (l. 1)?

3. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” offers an example of which of the following?

4. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

5. In the sentence “And so he who has tasted life’s joy in towns, / suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes, / proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary, / have often had to endure in my seafaring” (ll. 27-30), which of the following does NOT describe the “he” upon whom the narrator remarks?

(see the answer key)

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