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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What musician does the narrator claim to have heard (ll. 19-20)?
(a) The clucking chicken.
(b) The wild swan.
(c) The tame goose.
(d) The red cardinal.

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 just complains.
(c) He does not care.
(d) He does not know.

3. The phrase “frost bound the ground, hail fell on the earth” (l. 32) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Rhyme.
(d) Pun.

4. The narrator claims to be doubted by which of the following (ll. 27-30)?
(a) He who furnished commencement gowns.
(b) She who knows the old wisdom.
(c) His own heart and mind.
(d) He who has tasted life’s joy in towns.

5. In line 28, “suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) Believes.
(b) Sad.
(c) Journeys.
(d) Few.

6. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?
(a) The Winchester Manuscript.
(b) The Voynich Manuscript.
(c) The Exeter Book.
(d) The Vercelli Book.

7. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Epic.
(c) Exegesis.
(d) Elegy.

8. By which of the following were the narrator's "feet, bound by frost” (ll. 9-10)?
(a) Cold feathers.
(b) Cod fetters.
(c) Coder flatterers.
(d) Cold fetters.

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

10. Which of the following does the narrator remark happened when he "wretched with care, dwelt all winter” (ll. 14-17)?
(a) Hot chocolate was served.
(b) Hail flew in showers.
(c) He took hot showers.
(d) The field filled with flowers.

11. The narrator notes that which of the following darkened (l. 31)?
(a) The night-shadow.
(b) The swift winds.
(c) The day-walker.
(d) The new moon.

12. From which of the following does the narrator note the tern replies (l. 23)?
(a) Solemn graves.
(b) Stone cliffs.
(c) Ship's stem.
(d) Standing trees.

13. Which of the following does the narrator link to the noise of the sea (ll. 18-19)?
(a) The leaping dolphins.
(b) The ice-cold waves.
(c) The rolling tide.
(d) The surging surf.

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

15. The narrator remarks that “I heard nothing there but the noise of the sea” (l. 18). Relative stress / emphasis falls at the beginning of which words in the remark?
(a) Heard and noise.
(b) I and sea.
(c) There and the.
(d) I and nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what end does the narrator note he is driven (ll. 36-38)?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. In line 17, “hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

5. The narrator remarks that none “could bring consolation to my desolate soul” (l. 26). How many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are in the line?

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