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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 114-162.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to lines 136 and 137, what do people like the speaker have a "cheerful faith" in?
(a) Everything they see is infused with blessings.
(b) People are never intentionally cruel.
(c) All people will eventually be healed by nature.
(d) The natural world creates sublime experiences.

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

4. What does the speaker compare his sister's future mind to in line 142?
(a) A colorful marketplace.
(b) A large house.
(c) A dense forest.
(d) A rushing river.

5. Which techniques are used in lines 139-140 "And let the misty mountain-winds be free/ To blow against thee: and, in after years"?
(a) Asyndeton and internal rhyme.
(b) Internal rhyme and caesura.
(c) Caesura and situational irony.
(d) Situational irony and asyndeton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "still sad music" does the speaker hear when he looks at the landscape (93)?

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

3. Who is the author of "Tintern Abbey"?

4. "My dear, dear Friend" contains an example of which technique?

5. What technique is used in the phrase "green pastoral landscape"?

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