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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 technique is employed when the speaker calls the view "food" for future years (line 66)?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Verbal irony.
(d) Euphemism.

2. The word "murmur" in line 4 is an example of which technique?
(a) Vernacular diction.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Pejorative diction.
(d) Oxymoron.

3. Which of the following describes the term "pastoral farms" (line 16)?
(a) Pleonasm.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Paradox.

4. What do lines 60 and 61 describe with expressions like "recognitions dim and faint"?
(a) Shallow relationships.
(b) Misunderstandings.
(c) Failing vision.
(d) Fading memories.

5. Which is the best definition of "perplexity" in the context of line 62?
(a) Complication.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Melancholy.
(d) Intuition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "still sad music" does the speaker hear when he looks at the landscape (93)?

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

3. Which is the best definition of "intercourse" in the context of line 134?

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

5. Which technique is used in the phrase "the fever of the world" in line 55?

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