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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did the speaker primarily relate to nature when he was younger?
(a) Through his actions.
(b) Through his senses.
(c) Through his spirit.
(d) Through his mind.

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

4. Which technique is used in the line 70 phrase "I bounded o'er the mountains"?
(a) Platitude.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Elision.

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

6. Which sound device is used in line 56, "Have hung upon the beatings of my heart"?
(a) Cacophony.
(b) Sibilance.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Elision.

7. Which technique is employed in line 64, "While here I stand, not only with the sense"?
(a) Inversion.
(b) Paraprosdokian.
(c) Platitude.
(d) Isocolon.

8. What is emphasized by the diction "appetite" and "feeling" in line 82?
(a) Physical sensations.
(b) Passionate emotion.
(c) Youthful vitality.
(d) Unthinking selfishness.

9. What is the "remoter charm" that the speaker mentions in line 83?
(a) The attraction of far-away places.
(b) The excitement of discovery.
(c) The pleasure of philosophical thought.
(d) The bittersweet feeling of nostalgia.

10. What is the primary rhetorical function of the alliteration in line 65, "Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts"?
(a) It creates a rhythmic tone that mimics footsteps.
(b) It connects the present to the future.
(c) It distinguishes between the poet's senses and thoughts.
(d) It stresses the speaker's serene state of mind.

11. What idea is conveyed by the details listed toward the end of the fourth verse paragraph?
(a) Nature is far more mysterious than most people understand.
(b) Although essentially amoral, nature can still teach humans important lessons.
(c) All things are unified and guided by a single spiritual force.
(d) It is natural for people to get more philosophical and less emotional as they age.

12. What techniques are evidence in line 88's phrase "nor mourn nor murmur"?
(a) Parallelism and consonance.
(b) Antithesis and cacophony.
(c) Consonance and antithesis.
(d) Cacophony and parallelism.

13. Which technique is used in the phrase "the fever of the world" in line 55?
(a) Simile.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Synecdoche.

14. What technique is employed when the speaker says he cannot "paint" the person he used to be?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Synecdoche.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do lines 60 and 61 describe with expressions like "recognitions dim and faint"?

2. How do the speaker's present emotions compare with his past emotions?

3. What is the best definition of "impels" in the context of line 102?

4. Which is the best definition of the word "vain" in the context of line 52?

5. In line 75, what word does the speaker use to characterize his boyhood pleasures?

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