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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. Which of the following describes the term "pastoral farms" (line 16)?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Pleonasm.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Hyperbole.

2. What modern description might we give of the state that the speaker describes toward the end of the second verse paragraph?
(a) Hallucination.
(b) Hypnotic trance.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Unconsciousness.

3. What is the speaker referring to with the phrase "These beauteous forms" (line 23)?
(a) The entire landscape.
(b) The hermit and vagrants.
(c) The unripe fruits.
(d) The wreaths of smoke.

4. In line 75, what word does the speaker use to characterize his boyhood pleasures?
(a) "Sweeter."
(b) "Coarser."
(c) "Heedless."
(d) "Foolish."

5. Which technique is employed in line 64, "While here I stand, not only with the sense"?
(a) Isocolon.
(b) Paraprosdokian.
(c) Inversion.
(d) Platitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best definition of "cataract" in the context of line 78?

2. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?

3. What techniques are evidence in line 88's phrase "nor mourn nor murmur"?

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

5. What kind of image opens the poem?

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