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

2. What technique is employed when the speaker says he cannot "paint" the person he used to be?
(a) Synecdoche.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Metonymy.

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

4. What does the speaker mean when he says he was "'mid the din/ Of towns and cities" (lines 26-27)?
(a) In the city, he was surrounded by loud, unpleasant noise.
(b) In the city, he was surrounded by crowds and confusion.
(c) In the city, he was often tired and hungry.
(d) In the city, he was often forced to hurry and rush through things.

5. How did the speaker primarily relate to nature when he was younger?
(a) Through his mind.
(b) Through his actions.
(c) Through his spirit.
(d) Through his senses.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of image opens the poem?

3. What is emphasized by the diction "appetite" and "feeling" in line 82?

4. What idea is conveyed by the details listed toward the end of the fourth verse paragraph?

5. To whom is the apostrophe in lines 57-59 addressed?

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