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

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) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

2. 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) 2.
(d) 4

3. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered; often the eagle screamed, / dewy-feathered” (ll. 23-25). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Anagram.
(b) Aphorism.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Anaphora.

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

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

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

7. The narrator remarks he "heard nothing there but the noise of” which of the following (l. 18)?
(a) The sea.
(b) Mead-drink.
(c) Music.
(d) The laughter of men.

8. 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?
(a) Curling.
(b) Künstlerroman.
(c) Kenning.
(d) Cunning.

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

10. The narrator suggests that the seafarer of the title is which of the following (ll. 35-38)?
(a) God.
(b) The man in town.
(c) The narrator.
(d) His spirit.

11. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Proposition.
(b) Apposition.
(c) Supposition.
(d) Opposition.

12. The narrator describes the "salt streams" as which of the following (l. 35)?
(a) Flowing.
(b) Tossing.
(c) Churning.
(d) Seething.

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

14. 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) Hail flew in showers.
(c) Paths of exile.
(d) Deprived of dear kinsmen.

15. 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) Euphemism.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Pentameter.
(d) Alliteration.

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

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

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

4. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?

5. The narrator describes the screaming eagle as which of the following (ll. 24-25)?

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