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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. Which techniques are used in lines 139-140 "And let the misty mountain-winds be free/ To blow against thee: and, in after years"?
(a) Internal rhyme and caesura.
(b) Situational irony and asyndeton.
(c) Caesura and situational irony.
(d) Asyndeton and internal rhyme.

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

3. Who is the "thou" addressed in line 117?
(a) The reader.
(b) The Wye.
(c) God.
(d) The speaker's sister.

4. What is implied by the speaker's mention of being here he can no longer hear his sister's voice?
(a) He might move far away.
(b) He might die before her.
(c) He fears a time when they are no longer best friends.
(d) His travels might keep him away for long periods.

5. Which of the following is an examples of the "wild ecstasies" the speaker mentions in line 141?
(a) The wild light in the sister's eyes.
(b) Nature's desire to lead people toward joy.
(c) The rash judgments nature will protect the sister against.
(d) The moon shining on the sister while she walks alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What techniques are evident in "the shooting lights/ Of thy wild eyes"?

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

3. Which is the most accurate paraphrase of "Suffer my genial spirits to decay" (116)?

4. 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?

5. What kind of confusion does the speaker find himself able to shrug off when he remembers the landscape?

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