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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798" Lines 1-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What paradox does the speaker introduce at the end of the second verse paragraph?
(a) He can exercise more discipline without using his will power.
(b) He can see more clearly without using his vision.
(c) He can move more quickly without using his body.
(d) He can understand more thoroughly without using his mind.

2. What kind of image opens the poem?
(a) A visual image of the mountains.
(b) An olfactory image of smoke.
(c) An auditory image of the water.
(d) A tactile image of the grass and tree bark.

3. What does the speaker mean when he says he was "'mid the din/ Of towns and cities" (lines 26-27)?
(a) In the city, he was often tired and hungry.
(b) In the city, he was surrounded by loud, unpleasant noise.
(c) In the city, he was surrounded by crowds and confusion.
(d) In the city, he was often forced to hurry and rush through things.

4. What sets line 22, "The Hermit sits alone," apart from the preceding 21 lines?
(a) Its tone.
(b) Its syntax.
(c) Its length.
(d) Its perspective.

5. Which is the best definition of "sportive" in the context of line 16?
(a) Carried away by playful emotion.
(b) Ungovernable, unmanageable.
(c) Competitive to the point of aggression.
(d) Of or related to sports.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the speaker referring to with the phrase "These beauteous forms" (line 23)?

2. The word "murmur" in line 4 is an example of which technique?

3. What are "copses" (line 14)?

4. What modern description might we give of the state that the speaker describes toward the end of the second verse paragraph?

5. What kind of confusion does the speaker find himself able to shrug off when he remembers the landscape?

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