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

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

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

4. 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 eccentricity.
(c) The speaker's ego.
(d) The speaker's distance from the past.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the speaker's present emotions compare with his past emotions?

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

4. What is emphasized by the diction "appetite" and "feeling" in line 82?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence does the speaker provide that demonstrates how much he enjoyed the sensations of nature when he was younger?

2. What does the speaker say he is gaining from looking at the scene, besides "present pleasure" (65)?

3. What comment does the speaker make about his motivations for being in nature when he was younger?

4. In what ways does the speaker compare himself to an animal?

5. In the third verse paragraph, what argument does the speaker have with himself?

6. What is the "sad perplexity" the speaker feels in line 62?

7. What does the speaker say he now sees in nature that he did not see when he was younger?

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