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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 building is an abbey?
(a) A castle.
(b) A cathedral.
(c) A country home.
(d) A monastery or convent.

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

3. How long has it been since the speaker was last in this place?
(a) Seven years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Six years.
(d) Four years.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of confusion does the speaker find himself able to shrug off when he remembers the landscape?

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

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

4. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 19 mention of "some uncertain notice"?

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

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