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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 device is used in lines 146 and 147 when the speaker says "If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief,/ Should be thy portion"?
(a) Meiosis.
(b) Polysyndeton.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Epithet.

2. Which is the best definition of "intercourse" in the context of line 134?
(a) Sexual activity.
(b) The movement of people around a location.
(c) The exchange of goods and services for money.
(d) Shared conversation and activities.

3. Who is the author of "Tintern Abbey"?
(a) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(c) William Wordsworth.
(d) John Keats.

4. What is the purpose of the poem's comparisons of thoughts to food?
(a) They distinguish between things that fuel the mind and things that fuel the body.
(b) They make the point that positive thoughts can sustain and improve life.
(c) They warn against overindulgence in negative thinking and emotions.
(d) They stress the unity of all things in nature, human and nonhuman.

5. Whose "past existence" does the speaker imply he may one day no longer be able to see in his sister's eyes?
(a) The Wye's.
(b) His own.
(c) His sister's.
(d) Tintern Abbey's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is employed when the speaker calls the view "food" for future years (line 66)?

2. What is the "remoter charm" that the speaker mentions in line 83?

3. In what way does the diction in line 135, "Shall e'er prevail against us," contrast with much of the diction in the rest of the poem?

4. Who is the "thou" addressed in line 117?

5. Which of the following is not one of the functions of the image of the moon shining on the speaker's sister while she is walking alone?

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