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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. In line 142, what word does the speaker use to characterize the kind of pleasure mature people feel in nature?
(a) Sensual.
(b) Dulled.
(c) Ecstatic.
(d) Sober.

2. What is the speaker referring to with the phrase "These beauteous forms" (line 23)?
(a) The unripe fruits.
(b) The wreaths of smoke.
(c) The entire landscape.
(d) The hermit and vagrants.

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

4. What idea is conveyed by the details listed toward the end of the fourth verse paragraph?
(a) All things are unified and guided by a single spiritual force.
(b) Although essentially amoral, nature can still teach humans important lessons.
(c) It is natural for people to get more philosophical and less emotional as they age.
(d) Nature is far more mysterious than most people understand.

5. How long has it been since the speaker was last in this place?
(a) Five years.
(b) Six years.
(c) Seven years.
(d) Four years.

Short Answer 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"?

2. Which techniques are used in lines 139-140 "And let the misty mountain-winds be free/ To blow against thee: and, in after years"?

3. Which of the following describes the term "pastoral farms" (line 16)?

4. What does the speaker mean when he says he was "'mid the din/ Of towns and cities" (lines 26-27)?

5. What techniques are evident in "the shooting lights/ Of thy wild eyes"?

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