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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. Lines 18 and 19, "Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!/ With some uncertain notice, as might seem," contain which two techniques?
(a) Assonance, sibilance.
(b) Litotes, anaphora.
(c) Anaphora, assonance.
(d) Sibilance, litotes.

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

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

4. Besides in his heart and mind, where does the speaker say he felt "sensations sweet" when he remembered the landscape (28)?
(a) In his stomach.
(b) In his bones.
(c) In his blood.
(d) In his throat.

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

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. What are "copses" (line 14)?

3. Which is the best definition of "sportive" in the context of line 16?

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

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

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