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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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) Opposition.
(b) Proposition.
(c) Supposition.
(d) Apposition.

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

4. In line 35, “the high seas, the tossing salt streams,” how many times is the alliteration iterated?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

5. In the sentence “And so he who has tasted life’s joy in towns, / suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes, / proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary, / have often had to endure in my seafaring” (ll. 27-30), which of the following does NOT describe the “he” upon whom the narrator remarks?
(a) Suffered few sad journeys.
(b) Has tasted life's joy in towns.
(c) Weary.
(d) Proud and puffed up with wine.

6. What does the narrator describe as urging his spirit onwards (l. 36)?
(a) His soul's caress.
(b) His father's fury.
(c) His heart's desire.
(d) His beloved's blessing.

7. 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 kissing.
(b) Dear kinsmen.
(c) Dead kinsmen.
(d) Deer hunting.

8. The narrator describes his doubter as which of the following (ll. 27-30)?
(a) He has traveled in many journeys.
(b) He has enjoyed few happy journeys.
(c) He has fought in many tourneys.
(d) He has suffered few sad journeys.

9. In line 17, “hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4
(d) 2.

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

11. 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) Whose lot is fairest on land.
(b) Paths of exile.
(c) Hail flew in showers.
(d) Deprived of dear kinsmen.

12. The narrator describes which of the following as his thinking part (l. 34)?
(a) Belly.
(b) Heart.
(c) Buttocks.
(d) Head.

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

14. The narrator comments about “the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men” (l. 21). The comment offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Rhyme.
(d) Pentameter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” offers an example of which of the following?

2. How many stressed / emphasized syllables occur in the opening comment of the poem, “I sing a true song of myself” (l. 1)?

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. The narrator remarks that “no sheltering family / could bring consolation to” which of the following (ll. 25-26)?

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

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