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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What "still sad music" does the speaker hear when he looks at the landscape (93)?
(a) The "still sad music of the past."
(b) The "still sad music of the spheres."
(c) The "still sad music of humanity."
(d) The "still sad music of philosophy."

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

15. 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) Caesura.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Epizeuxis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea is conveyed by the details listed toward the end of the fourth verse paragraph?

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

3. What is a "roe" (line 69)?

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

5. What technique is employed when the speaker says he cannot "paint" the person he used to be?

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