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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 paradox does the speaker introduce at the end of the second verse paragraph?
(a) He can see more clearly without using his vision.
(b) He can move more quickly without using his body.
(c) He can exercise more discipline without using his will power.
(d) He can understand more thoroughly without using his mind.

2. What is emphasized by the diction "appetite" and "feeling" in line 82?
(a) Physical sensations.
(b) Passionate emotion.
(c) Unthinking selfishness.
(d) Youthful vitality.

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

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

5. Which is the best definition of "sportive" in the context of line 16?
(a) Carried away by playful emotion.
(b) Of or related to sports.
(c) Ungovernable, unmanageable.
(d) Competitive to the point of aggression.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following describes the term "pastoral farms" (line 16)?

3. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?

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

5. What is the "remoter charm" that the speaker mentions in line 83?

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