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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. What is the primary rhetorical function of the alliteration in line 65, "Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts"?
(a) It stresses the speaker's serene state of mind.
(b) It distinguishes between the poet's senses and thoughts.
(c) It creates a rhythmic tone that mimics footsteps.
(d) It connects the present to the future.

2. Besides in his heart and mind, where does the speaker say he felt "sensations sweet" when he remembered the landscape (28)?
(a) In his stomach.
(b) In his blood.
(c) In his bones.
(d) In his throat.

3. 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) A visual image of the mountains.
(d) An olfactory image of smoke.

4. Who is the author of "Tintern Abbey"?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(b) John Keats.
(c) William Wordsworth.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

5. What kind of a thought is "lofty" (131)?
(a) Unrealistic, foolish.
(b) Elevated, high-minded.
(c) Ambitious, selfish.
(d) Snobbish, conceited.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the speaker say nature feels about giving people joy?

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

4. Which of the following is an examples of the "wild ecstasies" the speaker mentions in line 141?

5. What does the speaker mean in lines 146 and 147 when he says "If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief,/ Should be thy portion"?

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