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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. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 19 mention of "some uncertain notice"?
(a) The trees are unaware of the people beneath them.
(b) The smoke's meaning is unclear.
(c) He is not sure whether he is imagining the smoke.
(d) The trees obscure his vision.

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

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

4. Line 33's use of the phrase "As have no slight or trivial influence" is an example of which technique?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Litotes.
(d) Anthimeria.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are "copses" (line 14)?

2. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?

3. Lines 18 and 19, "Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!/ With some uncertain notice, as might seem," contain which two techniques?

4. What kind of image opens the poem?

5. What modern description might we give of the state that the speaker describes toward the end of the second verse paragraph?

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