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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 58-102.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?
(a) The tumbling waves.
(b) Joy in the world.
(c) Piles of silver.
(d) Sadness and sorrow.

2. Which of the following does the narrator assert is true of “he whose lot is fairest on land” (ll. 12-13)?
(a) He protects and attacks.
(b) He does not know.
(c) He does not care.
(d) He just complains.

3. 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.

4. Who remains to rule the world (l. 87)?
(a) The stay-at-home.
(b) The weak.
(c) The strong.
(d) The adventurous.

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). In the sentence, “I” is in apposition to which of the following?
(a) Hail flew in showers.
(b) Paths of exile.
(c) Deprived of dear kinsmen.
(d) Whose lot is fairest on land.

Short Answer Questions

1. The phrase “roams widely over the whale’s home” (l. 60) offers an example of which of the following?

2. Line 83, “nor gold-gives as there once were,” offers an example of which of the following?

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

4. What has the fallen noble host lost (l. 86)?

5. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?

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