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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Chiasmus.
(c) Polysyndeton.
(d) Caesura.

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

4. How does the speaker characterize the daytime activities of humans in the city?
(a) They are dangerous.
(b) They are panicked.
(c) They are pointless.
(d) They are reckless.

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

6. 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) It is natural for people to get more philosophical and less emotional as they age.
(c) Nature is far more mysterious than most people understand.
(d) All things are unified and guided by a single spiritual force.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What is the best definition of "impels" in the context of line 102?
(a) To limit or define.
(b) To drive or motivate action.
(c) To force compliance.
(d) To inspire and improve.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which technique is used in the phrase "the fever of the world" in line 55?

3. Which sound device is used in line 56, "Have hung upon the beatings of my heart"?

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

5. What techniques are evidence in line 88's phrase "nor mourn nor murmur"?

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