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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a "roe" (line 69)?
(a) A deer.
(b) A squirrel.
(c) A wild boar.
(d) A fish.

2. How do the speaker's present emotions compare with his past emotions?
(a) His emotions are now less complicated and confusing.
(b) His emotions are now more muted and controlled.
(c) His emotions are now less concealed and secretive.
(d) His emotions are now deeper and more overwhelming.

3. What is the best definition of "cataract" in the context of line 78?
(a) Narrowing canyon.
(b) Clouded vision.
(c) Rushing water.
(d) Pounding heart.

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

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

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

7. To whom is the apostrophe in lines 57-59 addressed?
(a) The woods.
(b) The river.
(c) The mountains.
(d) The hermit.

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

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

10. In line 75, what word does the speaker use to characterize his boyhood pleasures?
(a) "Heedless."
(b) "Foolish."
(c) "Coarser."
(d) "Sweeter."

11. Which is the best definition of the word "vain" in the context of line 52?
(a) Changeable, wavering.
(b) Unsuccessful, doomed to failure.
(c) Conceited, proud.
(d) Foolish, worthless.

12. 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 distance from the past.
(c) The speaker's philosophical nature.
(d) The speaker's ego.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which technique is used in the line 70 phrase "I bounded o'er the mountains"?

4. How did the speaker primarily relate to nature when he was younger?

5. How does the speaker characterize the daytime activities of humans in the city?

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