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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 say is the best part of a good person's life?
(a) Helping others focus on the important aspects of life.
(b) The positive memories created for others.
(c) Gestures of love and respect from others.
(d) Small acts of love and kindness performed for others.

2. Which is the most accurate paraphrase of "Suffer my genial spirits to decay" (116)?
(a) Become less passionate.
(b) Become thoughtful.
(c) Become more realistic.
(d) Become depressed.

3. What technique is used in the phrase "green pastoral landscape"?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Pleonasm.
(c) Paralipsis.
(d) Neologism.

4. 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) Chiasmus.
(b) Epizeuxis.
(c) Caesura.
(d) Polysyndeton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of building is an abbey?

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

3. What does the speaker imagine will help his sister cope with hard times in the future?

4. What is the speaker referring to with the phrase "These beauteous forms" (line 23)?

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

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