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

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

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

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

5. What is emphasized by the diction "appetite" and "feeling" in line 82?
(a) Physical sensations.
(b) Passionate emotion.
(c) Unthinking selfishness.
(d) Youthful vitality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best definition of "impels" in the context of line 102?

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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