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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 is most likely to be the intended effect of the repetition and redundancies throughout the first two verse paragraphs?
(a) They demonstrate how the speaker's confusion eases when he is in nature.
(b) They indicate the speaker's hesitation to share such a personal experience.
(c) They slow the poem's pace to reflect the speaker's state of mind.
(d) They emphasize the passage of time and important elements of the scene.

2. What do lines 60 and 61 describe with expressions like "recognitions dim and faint"?
(a) Fading memories.
(b) Failing vision.
(c) Shallow relationships.
(d) Misunderstandings.

3. What does the speaker mean when he says he was "'mid the din/ Of towns and cities" (lines 26-27)?
(a) In the city, he was surrounded by crowds and confusion.
(b) In the city, he was often tired and hungry.
(c) In the city, he was often forced to hurry and rush through things.
(d) In the city, he was surrounded by loud, unpleasant noise.

4. What device is used in lines 146 and 147 when the speaker says "If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief,/ Should be thy portion"?
(a) Meiosis.
(b) Polysyndeton.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Epithet.

5. Whose "past existence" does the speaker imply he may one day no longer be able to see in his sister's eyes?
(a) His sister's.
(b) The Wye's.
(c) Tintern Abbey's.
(d) His own.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is implied by the speaker's mention of being here he can no longer hear his sister's voice?

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

3. How does the speaker say his many excursions in nature impacted his desire to come to this particular landscape with his sister?

4. Who is the "thou" addressed in line 117?

5. According to lines 136 and 137, what do people like the speaker have a "cheerful faith" in?

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