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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 51-113.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of confusion does the speaker find himself able to shrug off when he remembers the landscape?
(a) Confusion about why the world is the way it is.
(b) Confusion about the difference between philosophy and experience.
(c) Confusion about his relationships.
(d) Confusion about his own ambitions.

2. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?
(a) Transcendent experience.
(b) Complete and total.
(c) Passing from one phase of matter into another.
(d) To purify or refine.

3. What is emphasized by the unusual word order in line 78's "What then I was"?
(a) The speaker's ego.
(b) The speaker's philosophical nature.
(c) The speaker's distance from the past.
(d) The speaker's eccentricity.

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) Litotes, anaphora.
(c) Assonance, sibilance.
(d) Sibilance, litotes.

5. What techniques are evidence in line 88's phrase "nor mourn nor murmur"?
(a) Cacophony and parallelism.
(b) Consonance and antithesis.
(c) Antithesis and cacophony.
(d) Parallelism and consonance.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the speaker primarily relate to nature when he was younger?

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

3. How long has it been since the speaker was last in this place?

4. What technique is employed when the speaker calls the view "food" for future years (line 66)?

5. What is the speaker referring to with the phrase "These beauteous forms" (line 23)?

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