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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. Which is the best interpretation of lines 30-31, "And passing even into my purer mind/ With tranquil restoration"?
(a) The memories made the speaker feel calm and refreshed.
(b) The speaker was often distracted by boredom and negative thoughts.
(c) Only when the speaker was quiet and still could he perfectly remember the landscape.
(d) The speaker made a conscious effort to focus on the memories.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?

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

(see the answer key)

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