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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Nature is far more mysterious than most people understand.
(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.

3. 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) Chiasmus.
(d) Caesura.

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

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

6. What do lines 60 and 61 describe with expressions like "recognitions dim and faint"?
(a) Failing vision.
(b) Misunderstandings.
(c) Fading memories.
(d) Shallow relationships.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which is the best definition of "perplexity" in the context of line 62?

3. What technique is employed when the speaker calls the view "food" for future years (line 66)?

4. What is the best definition of "cataract" in the context of line 78?

5. To whom is the apostrophe in lines 57-59 addressed?

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