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

2. What modern description might we give of the state that the speaker describes toward the end of the second verse paragraph?
(a) Hallucination.
(b) Hypnotic trance.
(c) Unconsciousness.
(d) Meditation.

3. How long has it been since the speaker was last in this place?
(a) Six years.
(b) Seven years.
(c) Four years.
(d) Five years.

4. Which is the best definition of "sportive" in the context of line 16?
(a) Carried away by playful emotion.
(b) Ungovernable, unmanageable.
(c) Competitive to the point of aggression.
(d) Of or related to sports.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of image opens the poem?

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

3. What technique is employed when the speaker calls the view "food" for future years (line 66)?

4. What is the name of the river the speaker is near?

5. How do the speaker's present emotions compare with his past emotions?

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