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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. Who is the author of "Tintern Abbey"?
(a) John Keats.
(b) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(d) William Wordsworth.

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

3. What paradox does the speaker introduce at the end of the second verse paragraph?
(a) He can see more clearly without using his vision.
(b) He can move more quickly without using his body.
(c) He can understand more thoroughly without using his mind.
(d) He can exercise more discipline without using his will power.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What kind of tree does the speaker mention being under?

4. What is the speaker referring to with the phrase "These beauteous forms" (line 23)?

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

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