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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. What does the speaker mean in lines 146 and 147 when he says "If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief,/ Should be thy portion"?
(a) If your will is not strong enough to overcome fate.
(b) If your life turns out to include suffering.
(c) If someone prevents you from having a good life.
(d) If you choose to tackle difficult challenges.

2. Which of the following is an examples of the "wild ecstasies" the speaker mentions in line 141?
(a) Nature's desire to lead people toward joy.
(b) The moon shining on the sister while she walks alone.
(c) The wild light in the sister's eyes.
(d) The rash judgments nature will protect the sister against.

3. According to lines 136 and 137, what do people like the speaker have a "cheerful faith" in?
(a) People are never intentionally cruel.
(b) The natural world creates sublime experiences.
(c) Everything they see is infused with blessings.
(d) All people will eventually be healed by nature.

4. Who is the "thou" addressed in line 117?
(a) The reader.
(b) The Wye.
(c) The speaker's sister.
(d) God.

5. Whose "past existence" does the speaker imply he may one day no longer be able to see in his sister's eyes?
(a) Tintern Abbey's.
(b) His own.
(c) The Wye's.
(d) His sister's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of a thought is "lofty" (131)?

2. What paradox does the speaker introduce at the end of the second verse paragraph?

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

4. Besides in his heart and mind, where does the speaker say he felt "sensations sweet" when he remembered the landscape (28)?

5. What does the speaker compare his sister's future mind to in line 142?

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