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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. To whom is the apostrophe in lines 57-59 addressed?
(a) The woods.
(b) The river.
(c) The hermit.
(d) The mountains.

2. What is emphasized by the diction "appetite" and "feeling" in line 82?
(a) Physical sensations.
(b) Passionate emotion.
(c) Youthful vitality.
(d) Unthinking selfishness.

3. What is the name of the river the speaker is near?
(a) The Wye.
(b) The Severn.
(c) The Dee.
(d) The Thames.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the speaker primarily relate to nature when he was younger?

2. 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"?

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

4. What technique is used in the phrase "green pastoral landscape"?

5. Whose "past existence" does the speaker imply he may one day no longer be able to see in his sister's eyes?

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