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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798" Lines 114-162.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 19 mention of "some uncertain notice"?
(a) The smoke's meaning is unclear.
(b) He is not sure whether he is imagining the smoke.
(c) The trees are unaware of the people beneath them.
(d) The trees obscure his vision.

2. What is the name of the river the speaker is near?
(a) The Wye.
(b) The Dee.
(c) The Severn.
(d) The Thames.

3. How did the speaker primarily relate to nature when he was younger?
(a) Through his spirit.
(b) Through his mind.
(c) Through his actions.
(d) Through his senses.

4. Lines 18 and 19, "Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!/ With some uncertain notice, as might seem," contain which two techniques?
(a) Anaphora, assonance.
(b) Assonance, sibilance.
(c) Sibilance, litotes.
(d) Litotes, anaphora.

5. Which techniques are used in lines 139-140 "And let the misty mountain-winds be free/ To blow against thee: and, in after years"?
(a) Situational irony and asyndeton.
(b) Internal rhyme and caesura.
(c) Asyndeton and internal rhyme.
(d) Caesura and situational irony.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in lines 100-101: "And the round ocean and the living air,/ And the blue sky, and in the mind of man"?

2. According to lines 136 and 137, what do people like the speaker have a "cheerful faith" in?

3. What idea is the antecedent of "thus" in line 115 when the speaker says "If I were not thus taught"?

4. Who is the "thou" addressed in line 117?

5. Which of the following is an examples of the "wild ecstasies" the speaker mentions in line 141?

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