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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 kind of image opens the poem?
(a) An olfactory image of smoke.
(b) A visual image of the mountains.
(c) A tactile image of the grass and tree bark.
(d) An auditory image of the water.

2. What is the name of the river the speaker is near?
(a) The Thames.
(b) The Severn.
(c) The Dee.
(d) The Wye.

3. What are "copses" (line 14)?
(a) Stands of trees and brush.
(b) The decayed remains of buildings.
(c) Spots of contrasting color.
(d) Shallow dips in the landscape.

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

5. What modern description might we give of the state that the speaker describes toward the end of the second verse paragraph?
(a) Unconsciousness.
(b) Hallucination.
(c) Hypnotic trance.
(d) Meditation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say is the best part of a good person's life?

2. What kind of building is an abbey?

3. Line 33's use of the phrase "As have no slight or trivial influence" is an example of which technique?

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

5. What sets line 22, "The Hermit sits alone," apart from the preceding 21 lines?

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