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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 kind of tree does the speaker mention being under?
(a) Oak.
(b) Sycamore.
(c) Chestnut.
(d) Aspen.

2. Which is the best interpretation of lines 30-31, "And passing even into my purer mind/ With tranquil restoration"?
(a) The memories made the speaker feel calm and refreshed.
(b) The speaker made a conscious effort to focus on the memories.
(c) Only when the speaker was quiet and still could he perfectly remember the landscape.
(d) The speaker was often distracted by boredom and negative thoughts.

3. What kind of image opens the poem?
(a) An olfactory image of smoke.
(b) A visual image of the mountains.
(c) A tactile image of the grass and tree bark.
(d) An auditory image of the water.

4. What techniques are evidence in line 88's phrase "nor mourn nor murmur"?
(a) Cacophony and parallelism.
(b) Antithesis and cacophony.
(c) Consonance and antithesis.
(d) Parallelism and consonance.

5. How does the speaker say nature feels about giving people joy?
(a) Fortunate to have this honor.
(b) Amused at how easily humans are distracted.
(c) Indifferent, because nature has no real choice.
(d) Relieved to diminish shared suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. What techniques are evident in "the shooting lights/ Of thy wild eyes"?

2. "My dear, dear Friend" contains an example of which technique?

3. What modern description might we give of the state that the speaker describes toward the end of the second verse paragraph?

4. What idea is conveyed by the details listed toward the end of the fourth verse paragraph?

5. 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?

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