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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 51-113.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is the best definition of "perplexity" in the context of line 62?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Intuition.
(d) Complication.

2. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?
(a) Complete and total.
(b) Transcendent experience.
(c) Passing from one phase of matter into another.
(d) To purify or refine.

3. How did the speaker primarily relate to nature when he was younger?
(a) Through his spirit.
(b) Through his actions.
(c) Through his senses.
(d) Through his mind.

4. Which of the following describes the term "pastoral farms" (line 16)?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Pleonasm.
(d) Oxymoron.

5. What technique is employed when the speaker says he cannot "paint" the person he used to be?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Synecdoche.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lines 18 and 19, "Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!/ With some uncertain notice, as might seem," contain which two techniques?

2. What kind of tree does the speaker mention being under?

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

4. What is the primary rhetorical function of the alliteration in line 65, "Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts"?

5. What does the speaker mean when he says he was "'mid the din/ Of towns and cities" (lines 26-27)?

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