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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. In what way does the diction in line 135, "Shall e'er prevail against us," contrast with much of the diction in the rest of the poem?
(a) It is more concrete.
(b) It is more colloquial.
(c) It is more elevated.
(d) It is more pejorative.

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

3. What device is used in the phrase "evil tongues" (131)?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Synesthesia.
(d) Euphemism.

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

5. In line 142, what word does the speaker use to characterize the kind of pleasure mature people feel in nature?
(a) Ecstatic.
(b) Dulled.
(c) Sensual.
(d) Sober.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "roe" (line 69)?

2. 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"?

3. How long has it been since the speaker was last in this place?

4. What technique is used in the phrase "green pastoral landscape"?

5. What is the best definition of "impels" in the context of line 102?

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