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

2. Which is the best definition of "perplexity" in the context of line 62?
(a) Complication.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Melancholy.
(d) Confusion.

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

4. What is emphasized by the unusual word order in line 78's "What then I was"?
(a) The speaker's eccentricity.
(b) The speaker's distance from the past.
(c) The speaker's philosophical nature.
(d) The speaker's ego.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of image opens the poem?

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

3. In line 75, what word does the speaker use to characterize his boyhood pleasures?

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

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

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