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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 51-113.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea is conveyed by the details listed toward the end of the fourth verse paragraph?
(a) Nature is far more mysterious than most people understand.
(b) Although essentially amoral, nature can still teach humans important lessons.
(c) All things are unified and guided by a single spiritual force.
(d) It is natural for people to get more philosophical and less emotional as they age.

2. What is the best definition of "impels" in the context of line 102?
(a) To drive or motivate action.
(b) To force compliance.
(c) To inspire and improve.
(d) To limit or define.

3. What is a "roe" (line 69)?
(a) A wild boar.
(b) A deer.
(c) A squirrel.
(d) A fish.

4. What is emphasized by the diction "appetite" and "feeling" in line 82?
(a) Physical sensations.
(b) Unthinking selfishness.
(c) Passionate emotion.
(d) Youthful vitality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What techniques are evidence in line 88's phrase "nor mourn nor murmur"?

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

3. What technique is used in lines 100-101: "And the round ocean and the living air,/ And the blue sky, and in the mind of man"?

4. What "still sad music" does the speaker hear when he looks at the landscape (93)?

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

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