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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 is the name of the river the speaker is near?
(a) The Wye.
(b) The Severn.
(c) The Dee.
(d) The Thames.

2. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 19 mention of "some uncertain notice"?
(a) He is not sure whether he is imagining the smoke.
(b) The smoke's meaning is unclear.
(c) The trees obscure his vision.
(d) The trees are unaware of the people beneath them.

3. What paradox does the speaker introduce at the end of the second verse paragraph?
(a) He can exercise more discipline without using his will power.
(b) He can move more quickly without using his body.
(c) He can understand more thoroughly without using his mind.
(d) He can see more clearly without using his vision.

4. Who is the author of "Tintern Abbey"?
(a) William Wordsworth.
(b) John Keats.
(c) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

5. What modern description might we give of the state that the speaker describes toward the end of the second verse paragraph?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Hypnotic trance.
(c) Unconsciousness.
(d) Hallucination.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of building is an abbey?

3. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?

4. Which is most likely to be the intended effect of the repetition and redundancies throughout the first two verse paragraphs?

5. What kind of confusion does the speaker find himself able to shrug off when he remembers the landscape?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the landscape that the speaker sees.

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

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

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

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

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

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