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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Assonance, sibilance.
(b) Sibilance, litotes.
(c) Litotes, anaphora.
(d) Anaphora, assonance.

2. What are "copses" (line 14)?
(a) Stands of trees and brush.
(b) Spots of contrasting color.
(c) Shallow dips in the landscape.
(d) The decayed remains of buildings.

3. Who is the author of "Tintern Abbey"?
(a) John Keats.
(b) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(c) William Wordsworth.
(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

4. What is the name of the river the speaker is near?
(a) The Wye.
(b) The Dee.
(c) The Thames.
(d) The Severn.

5. What kind of building is an abbey?
(a) A castle.
(b) A country home.
(c) A cathedral.
(d) A monastery or convent.

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

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

8. Besides in his heart and mind, where does the speaker say he felt "sensations sweet" when he remembered the landscape (28)?
(a) In his bones.
(b) In his throat.
(c) In his stomach.
(d) In his blood.

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

10. Line 33's use of the phrase "As have no slight or trivial influence" is an example of which technique?
(a) Anthimeria.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Litotes.
(d) Euphemism.

11. 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 trees are unaware of the people beneath them.
(c) The trees obscure his vision.
(d) The smoke's meaning is unclear.

12. What does the speaker mean when he says he was "'mid the din/ Of towns and cities" (lines 26-27)?
(a) In the city, he was often forced to hurry and rush through things.
(b) In the city, he was often tired and hungry.
(c) In the city, he was surrounded by crowds and confusion.
(d) In the city, he was surrounded by loud, unpleasant noise.

13. What does the speaker say is the best part of a good person's life?
(a) Small acts of love and kindness performed for others.
(b) The positive memories created for others.
(c) Helping others focus on the important aspects of life.
(d) Gestures of love and respect from others.

14. 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 his relationships.
(c) Confusion about the difference between philosophy and experience.
(d) Confusion about his own ambitions.

15. What modern description might we give of the state that the speaker describes toward the end of the second verse paragraph?
(a) Hallucination.
(b) Unconsciousness.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Hypnotic trance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sets line 22, "The Hermit sits alone," apart from the preceding 21 lines?

2. The word "murmur" in line 4 is an example of which technique?

3. What is the speaker referring to with the phrase "These beauteous forms" (line 23)?

4. Which is most likely to be the intended effect of the repetition and redundancies throughout the first two verse paragraphs?

5. Which of the following describes the term "pastoral farms" (line 16)?

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