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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) Sibilance, litotes.
(b) Litotes, anaphora.
(c) Assonance, sibilance.
(d) Anaphora, assonance.

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

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

4. What kind of confusion does the speaker find himself able to shrug off when he remembers the landscape?
(a) Confusion about his own ambitions.
(b) Confusion about why the world is the way it is.
(c) Confusion about the difference between philosophy and experience.
(d) Confusion about his relationships.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is most likely to be the intended effect of the repetition and redundancies throughout the first two verse paragraphs?

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

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

4. Which is the best interpretation of lines 30-31, "And passing even into my purer mind/ With tranquil restoration"?

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

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