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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Solitary Reaper.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "The Solitary Reaper"?
(a) Percy Shelley.
(b) William Blake.
(c) William Wordsworth.
(d) John Keats.

2. What is the young woman doing in the field?
(a) Watching the speaker from the hillside.
(b) Pushing a cart down a path.
(c) Harvesting a grain crop.
(d) Watching over grazing sheep.

3. How does line 3, "Reaping and singing by herself," interrupt the poem's dominant metrical pattern?
(a) It ends with a trochee.
(b) It begins with a trochee.
(c) It begins with a spondee.
(d) It ends with a spondee.

4. What technique is evident in the line "Breaking the silence of the seas" (line 15)?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Sibilance.
(c) Aphorismus.
(d) Synesthesia.

5. What is the stanzaic form of "The Solitary Reaper"?
(a) Octave.
(b) Ballade.
(c) Octet.
(d) Ottava rima.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in phrases like "the Vale profound" (line 7) and "A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard" (line 13)?

2. In which stanza does the speaker make it clear that this event happened some time in the past?

3. What technique is employed in lines 7 and 8, "O listen! for the Vale profound / Is overflowing with the sound"?

4. What is the meaning of the word "Yon" in line 2, "Yon solitary Highland Lass"?

5. Where are "the farthest Hebrides" (line 16)?

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