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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) William Wordsworth.
(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

2. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?
(a) Transcendent experience.
(b) Complete and total.
(c) To purify or refine.
(d) Passing from one phase of matter into another.

3. Line 33's use of the phrase "As have no slight or trivial influence" is an example of which technique?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Litotes.
(d) Anthimeria.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the speaker say is the best part of a good person's life?

3. What sets line 22, "The Hermit sits alone," apart from the preceding 21 lines?

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

5. What kind of image opens the poem?

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