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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. Which is most likely to be the intended effect of the repetition and redundancies throughout the first two verse paragraphs?
(a) They emphasize the passage of time and important elements of the scene.
(b) They slow the poem's pace to reflect the speaker's state of mind.
(c) They indicate the speaker's hesitation to share such a personal experience.
(d) They demonstrate how the speaker's confusion eases when he is in nature.
2. What is the name of the river the speaker is near?
(a) The Severn.
(b) The Wye.
(c) The Dee.
(d) The Thames.
3. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 19 mention of "some uncertain notice"?
(a) He is not sure whether he is imagining the smoke.
(b) The smoke's meaning is unclear.
(c) The trees are unaware of the people beneath them.
(d) The trees obscure his vision.
4. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?
(a) "Dim."
(b) "Secluded."
(c) "Darkened."
(d) "Lonely."
5. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?
(a) To purify or refine.
(b) Complete and total.
(c) Transcendent experience.
(d) Passing from one phase of matter into another.
Short Answer Questions
1. What paradox does the speaker introduce at the end of the second verse paragraph?
2. Lines 18 and 19, "Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!/ With some uncertain notice, as might seem," contain which two techniques?
3. What kind of building is an abbey?
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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