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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 7 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker say is the best part of a good person's life?
(a) The positive memories created for others.
(b) Small acts of love and kindness performed for others.
(c) Gestures of love and respect from others.
(d) Helping others focus on the important aspects of life.

2. Which is the best interpretation of lines 30-31, "And passing even into my purer mind/ With tranquil restoration"?
(a) The speaker made a conscious effort to focus on the memories.
(b) The memories made the speaker feel calm and refreshed.
(c) The speaker was often distracted by boredom and negative thoughts.
(d) Only when the speaker was quiet and still could he perfectly remember the landscape.

3. What is the speaker referring to with the phrase "These beauteous forms" (line 23)?
(a) The unripe fruits.
(b) The hermit and vagrants.
(c) The wreaths of smoke.
(d) The entire landscape.

4. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?
(a) "Darkened."
(b) "Lonely."
(c) "Dim."
(d) "Secluded."

5. What kind of image opens the poem?
(a) A visual image of the mountains.
(b) An auditory image of the water.
(c) A tactile image of the grass and tree bark.
(d) An olfactory image of smoke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What paradox does the speaker introduce at the end of the second verse paragraph?

2. What kind of tree does the speaker mention being under?

3. The word "murmur" in line 4 is an example of which technique?

4. Besides in his heart and mind, where does the speaker say he felt "sensations sweet" when he remembered the landscape (28)?

5. Lines 18 and 19, "Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!/ With some uncertain notice, as might seem," contain which two techniques?

Short Essay Questions

1. What literal and philosophical impact do the cliffs have on the landscape the speaker is viewing?

2. What are two possibilities that the speaker imagines as the origin of the smoke he sees?

3. Where has the speaker been for the past five years, and how has the memory of this landscape impacted him?

4. What does the speaker say about the hedge-rows, and what does this reveal about his perspective on the scene?

5. Describe the landscape that the speaker sees.

6. What does the speaker mean in line 47 when he talks about becoming "a living soul"?

7. What two elements does the first stanza mention that contribute to the sense that the scene is unbroken and whole?

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