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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. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 19 mention of "some uncertain notice"?
(a) The trees are unaware of the people beneath them.
(b) He is not sure whether he is imagining the smoke.
(c) The trees obscure his vision.
(d) The smoke's meaning is unclear.

2. What does the speaker mean when he says he was "'mid the din/ Of towns and cities" (lines 26-27)?
(a) In the city, he was surrounded by crowds and confusion.
(b) In the city, he was often tired and hungry.
(c) In the city, he was surrounded by loud, unpleasant noise.
(d) In the city, he was often forced to hurry and rush through things.

3. What technique is used in lines 100-101: "And the round ocean and the living air,/ And the blue sky, and in the mind of man"?
(a) Caesura.
(b) Epizeuxis.
(c) Polysyndeton.
(d) Chiasmus.

4. What techniques are evident in "the shooting lights/ Of thy wild eyes"?
(a) Imagery and assonance.
(b) Juxtaposition and imagery.
(c) Simile and juxtaposition.
(d) Assonance and simile.

5. What is emphasized by the unusual word order in line 78's "What then I was"?
(a) The speaker's ego.
(b) The speaker's philosophical nature.
(c) The speaker's distance from the past.
(d) The speaker's eccentricity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best definition of "cataract" in the context of line 78?

2. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?

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

4. What are "copses" (line 14)?

5. What is the primary rhetorical function of the alliteration in line 65, "Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts"?

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