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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 line 37, “time and again to travel, so that I might seek,” how many times is the DOMINANT alliteration iterated?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

2. 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)?
(a) Dear kinsmen.
(b) Dead kinsmen.
(c) Dear kissing.
(d) Deer hunting.

3. In line 30, “have often had to endure in my seafaring,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) Endure.
(b) Seafaring.
(c) My.
(d) Had.

4. The narrator notes suffering in which of the following (ll. 27-30)?
(a) Sunbathing.
(b) Ceasing.
(c) Seafaring.
(d) Shackling.

5. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Antithesis.

Short Answer 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?

2. Which of the following came from the north (l. 31)?

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

4. The narrator describes hail as which of the following (ll. 32-33)?

5. 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?

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