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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?
(a) "Dim."
(b) "Lonely."
(c) "Secluded."
(d) "Darkened."

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

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

5. 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 often tired and hungry.
(b) In the city, he was surrounded by loud, unpleasant noise.
(c) In the city, he was surrounded by crowds and confusion.
(d) In the city, he was often forced to hurry and rush through things.

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

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

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

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

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

11. Besides in his heart and mind, where does the speaker say he felt "sensations sweet" when he remembered the landscape (28)?
(a) In his stomach.
(b) In his bones.
(c) In his throat.
(d) In his blood.

12. Which is the best interpretation of lines 30-31, "And passing even into my purer mind/ With tranquil restoration"?
(a) The speaker was often distracted by boredom and negative thoughts.
(b) The speaker made a conscious effort to focus on the memories.
(c) The memories made the speaker feel calm and refreshed.
(d) Only when the speaker was quiet and still could he perfectly remember the landscape.

13. Lines 18 and 19, "Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!/ With some uncertain notice, as might seem," contain which two techniques?
(a) Litotes, anaphora.
(b) Anaphora, assonance.
(c) Sibilance, litotes.
(d) Assonance, sibilance.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which is the best definition of "sportive" in the context of line 16?

3. What does the speaker say is the best part of a good person's life?

4. What kind of building is an abbey?

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

(see the answer keys)

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