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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 1-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the speaker referring to with the phrase "These beauteous forms" (line 23)?
(a) The entire landscape.
(b) The unripe fruits.
(c) The wreaths of smoke.
(d) The hermit and vagrants.

2. What kind of tree does the speaker mention being under?
(a) Oak.
(b) Sycamore.
(c) Chestnut.
(d) Aspen.

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

4. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?
(a) "Lonely."
(b) "Dim."
(c) "Darkened."
(d) "Secluded."

5. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?
(a) To purify or refine.
(b) Passing from one phase of matter into another.
(c) Complete and total.
(d) Transcendent experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is most likely to be the intended effect of the repetition and redundancies throughout the first two verse paragraphs?

2. What kind of image opens the poem?

3. What paradox does the speaker introduce at the end of the second verse paragraph?

4. What does the speaker mean when he says he was "'mid the din/ Of towns and cities" (lines 26-27)?

5. Besides in his heart and mind, where does the speaker say he felt "sensations sweet" when he remembered the landscape (28)?

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