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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. According to lines 136 and 137, what do people like the speaker have a "cheerful faith" in?
(a) Everything they see is infused with blessings.
(b) The natural world creates sublime experiences.
(c) People are never intentionally cruel.
(d) All people will eventually be healed by nature.

2. Which is the best definition of "intercourse" in the context of line 134?
(a) The exchange of goods and services for money.
(b) Shared conversation and activities.
(c) The movement of people around a location.
(d) Sexual activity.

3. In line 142, what word does the speaker use to characterize the kind of pleasure mature people feel in nature?
(a) Ecstatic.
(b) Sober.
(c) Sensual.
(d) Dulled.

4. Which sound device is used in line 56, "Have hung upon the beatings of my heart"?
(a) Elision.
(b) Cacophony.
(c) Sibilance.
(d) Alliteration.

5. What technique is used in lines 125 and 126, "Knowing that Nature never did betray/ The heart that loved her"?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Personification.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Metonymy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not one of the functions of the image of the moon shining on the speaker's sister while she is walking alone?

2. What kind of image opens the poem?

3. Line 33's use of the phrase "As have no slight or trivial influence" is an example of which technique?

4. What idea is conveyed by the details listed toward the end of the fourth verse paragraph?

5. What "still sad music" does the speaker hear when he looks at the landscape (93)?

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