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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 114-162.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the speaker say nature feels about giving people joy?
(a) Fortunate to have this honor.
(b) Relieved to diminish shared suffering.
(c) Amused at how easily humans are distracted.
(d) Indifferent, because nature has no real choice.

2. How do the speaker's present emotions compare with his past emotions?
(a) His emotions are now more muted and controlled.
(b) His emotions are now deeper and more overwhelming.
(c) His emotions are now less concealed and secretive.
(d) His emotions are now less complicated and confusing.

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

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

5. Lines 18 and 19, "Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!/ With some uncertain notice, as might seem," contain which two techniques?
(a) Litotes, anaphora.
(b) Sibilance, litotes.
(c) Anaphora, assonance.
(d) Assonance, sibilance.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the speaker characterize the daytime activities of humans in the city?

2. What is the best definition of "impels" in the context of line 102?

3. What is the "remoter charm" that the speaker mentions in line 83?

4. What sets line 22, "The Hermit sits alone," apart from the preceding 21 lines?

5. Which is the most accurate paraphrase of "Suffer my genial spirits to decay" (116)?

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