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

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

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

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

5. 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) Caesura.
(b) Polysyndeton.
(c) Epizeuxis.
(d) Chiasmus.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What "still sad music" does the speaker hear when he looks at the landscape (93)?

5. In line 75, what word does the speaker use to characterize his boyhood pleasures?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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