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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 describes which of the following as happening when his feet were “bound by frost / in cold fetters” (ll. 9-11)?
(a) Cars raced swiflty on the street.
(b) Carts heaped up with the harvest.
(c) Cares seethed hot around his heart.
(d) Casts called out to the crowd.

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

3. 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?
(a) Supposition.
(b) Opposition.
(c) Apposition.
(d) Proposition.

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

5. The narrator remarks he "heard nothing there but the noise of” which of the following (l. 18)?
(a) Music.
(b) Mead-drink.
(c) The laughter of men.
(d) The sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?

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). In the sentence, “I” is in apposition to which of the following?

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

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