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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What modern description might we give of the state that the speaker describes toward the end of the second verse paragraph?

4. Besides in his heart and mind, where does the speaker say he felt "sensations sweet" when he remembered the landscape (28)?

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

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