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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator note a man will have from his seafaring (l. 42)?
(a) Solace.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Surprise.
(d) Sleep.

2. The descriptor “greedy and hungry” (l. 62) modifies which of the following?
(a) My breast.
(b) The sea-flood.
(c) My spirit.
(d) Me.

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

4. Where do they walk whom the narrator says endure things unknown by those blessed with ease (ll. 55-57)?
(a) Streets of the city.
(b) Roads of riun.
(c) Highways of heaven.
(d) Paths of exile.

5. Which of the following will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?
(a) Cities grow fair.
(b) Cities grow hair.
(c) People grow fair.
(d) Cities are there.

6. To what does the phrase “summer’s guardian" refer (l. 54)?
(a) Crow.
(b) Cuckoo.
(c) Egret.
(d) Eagle.

7. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?
(a) Making of things.
(b) A songbird that sings.
(c) Taking of rings.
(d) Crowns of the kings.

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

9. In l. 80, “delight among heaven’s host. The days are lost,” there is an example of which of the following?
(a) Enjambment.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Enthrallment.
(d) End-stop.

10. Which of the following does he have "who hastens to sea" (l. 47)?
(a) Surfing.
(b) Hurting.
(c) Longing.
(d) Growing.

11. Which of the following does the narrator exclude from the mind of one who seeks to sail (ll. 44-47)?
(a) The drum.
(b) The harp.
(c) The horn.
(d) The pipe.

12. To which of the following does "the greybeard" refer (l. 92)?
(a) An old woman.
(b) An old goat.
(c) An old man.
(d) Hanging moss.

13. In l. 70, “illness or age or attack by the sword,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) Sword.
(b) Attack.
(c) The.
(d) By.

14. In the phrase “he always has longing who hastens to sea” (l. 47), how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

15. Line 92, “the graybeard grieves; he knows his old friends,” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Metonymy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the phrase “nor so bold in deeds, nor so beloved of his lord” (l. 41), how many times is the alliteration iterated?

2. In the phrase “summer’s guardian announces sorrow” (l. 54), which of the following is present?

3. The phrase “that before he must be on his way, he act” (l. 74) offers an example of which of the following?

4. Which of the following is NOT hanging "in the balance before its due time" (ll. 68-70)?

5. To which of the following does "his fleshly cloak" (l. 94) refer?

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