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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 image opens the poem?
(a) A tactile image of the grass and tree bark.
(b) An auditory image of the water.
(c) An olfactory image of smoke.
(d) A visual image of the mountains.

2. To whom is the apostrophe in lines 57-59 addressed?
(a) The hermit.
(b) The woods.
(c) The river.
(d) The mountains.

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

4. 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 eccentricity.
(c) The speaker's philosophical nature.
(d) The speaker's distance from the past.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best definition of "perplexity" in the context of line 62?

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

3. Besides in his heart and mind, where does the speaker say he felt "sensations sweet" when he remembered the landscape (28)?

4. What does the speaker say is the best part of a good person's life?

5. Which is the best definition of the word "vain" in the context of line 52?

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