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

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

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

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

5. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 19 mention of "some uncertain notice"?
(a) The smoke's meaning is unclear.
(b) He is not sure whether he is imagining the smoke.
(c) The trees are unaware of the people beneath them.
(d) The trees obscure his vision.

Short Answer 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?

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

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

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

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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