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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. Which is the best interpretation of lines 30-31, "And passing even into my purer mind/ With tranquil restoration"?
(a) The speaker was often distracted by boredom and negative thoughts.
(b) The memories made the speaker feel calm and refreshed.
(c) The speaker made a conscious effort to focus on the memories.
(d) Only when the speaker was quiet and still could he perfectly remember the landscape.

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

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

4. Which is the most accurate paraphrase of "Suffer my genial spirits to decay" (116)?
(a) Become thoughtful.
(b) Become less passionate.
(c) Become depressed.
(d) Become more realistic.

5. What device is used in lines 146 and 147 when the speaker says "If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief,/ Should be thy portion"?
(a) Meiosis.
(b) Epithet.
(c) Polysyndeton.
(d) Hyperbole.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of image opens the poem?

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

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

4. According to lines 136 and 137, what do people like the speaker have a "cheerful faith" in?

5. In what way does the diction in line 135, "Shall e'er prevail against us," contrast with much of the diction in the rest of the poem?

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