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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 "sportive" in the context of line 16?
(a) Carried away by playful emotion.
(b) Of or related to sports.
(c) Ungovernable, unmanageable.
(d) Competitive to the point of aggression.

2. What is emphasized by the diction "appetite" and "feeling" in line 82?
(a) Passionate emotion.
(b) Unthinking selfishness.
(c) Physical sensations.
(d) Youthful vitality.

3. What technique is used in lines 100-101: "And the round ocean and the living air,/ And the blue sky, and in the mind of man"?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Polysyndeton.
(c) Caesura.
(d) Epizeuxis.

4. What idea is conveyed by the details listed toward the end of the fourth verse paragraph?
(a) Although essentially amoral, nature can still teach humans important lessons.
(b) Nature is far more mysterious than most people understand.
(c) All things are unified and guided by a single spiritual force.
(d) It is natural for people to get more philosophical and less emotional as they age.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best definition of the word "vain" in the context of line 52?

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

3. Line 33's use of the phrase "As have no slight or trivial influence" is an example of which technique?

4. What are "copses" (line 14)?

5. How does the speaker characterize the daytime activities of humans in the city?

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