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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 103-124.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator notes a lack of which of the following (ll. 25-26)?
(a) Consolation.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Confirmation.
(d) Integration.

2. With what does the narrator's spirit move (l. 59)?
(a) The birds.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The reindeer.
(d) The sun.

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

4. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?
(a) Troubled times.
(b) Righteous wrath.
(c) Pox and penury.
(d) Sweet surrender.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 32, “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

2. In line 35, “the high seas, the tossing salt streams,” how many times is the alliteration iterated?

3. To which of the following does "the greybeard" refer (l. 92)?

4. Which of the following does the narrator bid the audience to consider (l. 117)?

5. The phrase “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth” (l. 32) offers an example of which of the following?

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