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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of tree does the speaker mention being under?
(a) Aspen.
(b) Chestnut.
(c) Oak.
(d) Sycamore.

2. What is the name of the river the speaker is near?
(a) The Thames.
(b) The Severn.
(c) The Dee.
(d) The Wye.

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

4. Which is most likely to be the intended effect of the repetition and redundancies throughout the first two verse paragraphs?
(a) They slow the poem's pace to reflect the speaker's state of mind.
(b) They indicate the speaker's hesitation to share such a personal experience.
(c) They demonstrate how the speaker's confusion eases when he is in nature.
(d) They emphasize the passage of time and important elements of the scene.

5. 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.

6. What modern description might we give of the state that the speaker describes toward the end of the second verse paragraph?
(a) Hallucination.
(b) Hypnotic trance.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Unconsciousness.

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

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

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

10. What kind of image opens the poem?
(a) A tactile image of the grass and tree bark.
(b) A visual image of the mountains.
(c) An olfactory image of smoke.
(d) An auditory image of the water.

11. What kind of confusion does the speaker find himself able to shrug off when he remembers the landscape?
(a) Confusion about why the world is the way it is.
(b) Confusion about the difference between philosophy and experience.
(c) Confusion about his own ambitions.
(d) Confusion about his relationships.

12. What are "copses" (line 14)?
(a) The decayed remains of buildings.
(b) Shallow dips in the landscape.
(c) Stands of trees and brush.
(d) Spots of contrasting color.

13. Which is the best definition of "sportive" in the context of line 16?
(a) Competitive to the point of aggression.
(b) Ungovernable, unmanageable.
(c) Of or related to sports.
(d) Carried away by playful emotion.

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

15. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?
(a) Transcendent experience.
(b) Complete and total.
(c) Passing from one phase of matter into another.
(d) To purify or refine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What paradox does the speaker introduce at the end of the second verse paragraph?

2. Lines 18 and 19, "Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!/ With some uncertain notice, as might seem," contain which two techniques?

3. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?

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

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

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