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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 kind of building is an abbey?
(a) A monastery or convent.
(b) A country home.
(c) A cathedral.
(d) A castle.

2. What sets line 22, "The Hermit sits alone," apart from the preceding 21 lines?
(a) Its tone.
(b) Its syntax.
(c) Its perspective.
(d) Its length.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. "My dear, dear Friend" contains an example of which technique?

3. How does the speaker say his many excursions in nature impacted his desire to come to this particular landscape with his sister?

4. What is emphasized by the unusual word order in line 78's "What then I was"?

5. What technique is employed when the speaker calls the view "food" for future years (line 66)?

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