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

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

3. What "still sad music" does the speaker hear when he looks at the landscape (93)?
(a) The "still sad music of humanity."
(b) The "still sad music of philosophy."
(c) The "still sad music of the past."
(d) The "still sad music of the spheres."

4. 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) Chiasmus.
(c) Polysyndeton.
(d) Caesura.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best definition of the word "vain" in the context of line 52?

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

3. Which technique is employed in line 64, "While here I stand, not only with the sense"?

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

5. How did the speaker primarily relate to nature when he was younger?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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