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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 of the following describes the term "pastoral farms" (line 16)?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Pleonasm.

2. What sets line 22, "The Hermit sits alone," apart from the preceding 21 lines?
(a) Its tone.
(b) Its perspective.
(c) Its length.
(d) Its syntax.

3. What "still sad music" does the speaker hear when he looks at the landscape (93)?
(a) The "still sad music of philosophy."
(b) The "still sad music of humanity."
(c) The "still sad music of the past."
(d) The "still sad music of the spheres."

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

5. Which technique is used in the phrase "the fever of the world" in line 55?
(a) Synecdoche.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Simile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of the poem's comparisons of thoughts to food?

2. What kind of image opens the poem?

3. What technique is used in lines 100-101: "And the round ocean and the living air,/ And the blue sky, and in the mind of man"?

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

5. What techniques are evidence in line 88's phrase "nor mourn nor murmur"?

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