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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 most likely to be the intended effect of the repetition and redundancies throughout the first two verse paragraphs?
(a) They slow the poem's pace to reflect the speaker's state of mind.
(b) They indicate the speaker's hesitation to share such a personal experience.
(c) They emphasize the passage of time and important elements of the scene.
(d) They demonstrate how the speaker's confusion eases when he is in nature.

2. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?
(a) "Darkened."
(b) "Lonely."
(c) "Dim."
(d) "Secluded."

3. To whom is the apostrophe in lines 57-59 addressed?
(a) The hermit.
(b) The mountains.
(c) The river.
(d) The woods.

4. What kind of confusion does the speaker find himself able to shrug off when he remembers the landscape?
(a) Confusion about why the world is the way it is.
(b) Confusion about the difference between philosophy and experience.
(c) Confusion about his relationships.
(d) Confusion about his own ambitions.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do lines 60 and 61 describe with expressions like "recognitions dim and faint"?

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

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

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

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