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

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

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

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

5. Which sound device is used in line 56, "Have hung upon the beatings of my heart"?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Sibilance.
(c) Cacophony.
(d) Elision.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the best definition of "cataract" in the context of line 78?

3. What technique is employed when the speaker says he cannot "paint" the person he used to be?

4. What do lines 60 and 61 describe with expressions like "recognitions dim and faint"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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