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

2. The word "murmur" in line 4 is an example of which technique?
(a) Vernacular diction.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Pejorative diction.

3. Which is most likely to be the intended effect of the repetition and redundancies throughout the first two verse paragraphs?
(a) They slow the poem's pace to reflect the speaker's state of mind.
(b) They demonstrate how the speaker's confusion eases when he is in nature.
(c) They emphasize the passage of time and important elements of the scene.
(d) They indicate the speaker's hesitation to share such a personal experience.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?

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

5. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 19 mention of "some uncertain notice"?

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