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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following came from the north (l. 31)?
(a) Attack.
(b) Snow.
(c) Rain.
(d) Wind.

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

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) For.
(b) Try.
(c) To.
(d) Myself.

4. 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.

5. The narrator describes hail as which of the following (ll. 32-33)?
(a) Coldest of grains.
(b) Sorest of pains.
(c) Badly restrained.
(d) Best of refrains.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes which of the following as his thinking part (l. 34)?

2. The narrator describes his thoughts as doing which of the following (ll. 33-34)?

3. The narrator comments "the curlew’s cry ” which of the following (l. 21)?

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

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

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