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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What kind of building is an abbey?
(a) A castle.
(b) A cathedral.
(c) A monastery or convent.
(d) A country home.
2. 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.
3. 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 emphasize the passage of time and important elements of the scene.
(c) They demonstrate how the speaker's confusion eases when he is in nature.
(d) They indicate the speaker's hesitation to share such a personal experience.
4. The word "murmur" in line 4 is an example of which technique?
(a) Vernacular diction.
(b) Pejorative diction.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Oxymoron.
5. What kind of confusion does the speaker find himself able to shrug off when he remembers the landscape?
(a) Confusion about the difference between philosophy and experience.
(b) Confusion about his own ambitions.
(c) Confusion about his relationships.
(d) Confusion about why the world is the way it is.
6. What paradox does the speaker introduce at the end of the second verse paragraph?
(a) He can move more quickly without using his body.
(b) He can exercise more discipline without using his will power.
(c) He can understand more thoroughly without using his mind.
(d) He can see more clearly without using his vision.
7. Which is the best definition of "sportive" in the context of line 16?
(a) Of or related to sports.
(b) Ungovernable, unmanageable.
(c) Competitive to the point of aggression.
(d) Carried away by playful emotion.
8. Which of the following describes the term "pastoral farms" (line 16)?
(a) Pleonasm.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Oxymoron.
9. Line 33's use of the phrase "As have no slight or trivial influence" is an example of which technique?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Anthimeria.
(d) Litotes.
10. What is the speaker referring to with the phrase "These beauteous forms" (line 23)?
(a) The unripe fruits.
(b) The hermit and vagrants.
(c) The entire landscape.
(d) The wreaths of smoke.
11. 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 tired and hungry.
(b) In the city, he was surrounded by crowds and confusion.
(c) In the city, he was often forced to hurry and rush through things.
(d) In the city, he was surrounded by loud, unpleasant noise.
12. Lines 18 and 19, "Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!/ With some uncertain notice, as might seem," contain which two techniques?
(a) Sibilance, litotes.
(b) Litotes, anaphora.
(c) Anaphora, assonance.
(d) Assonance, sibilance.
13. Who is the author of "Tintern Abbey"?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(b) John Keats.
(c) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(d) William Wordsworth.
14. What sets line 22, "The Hermit sits alone," apart from the preceding 21 lines?
(a) Its length.
(b) Its tone.
(c) Its perspective.
(d) Its syntax.
15. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?
(a) Complete and total.
(b) Transcendent experience.
(c) To purify or refine.
(d) Passing from one phase of matter into another.
Short Answer Questions
1. Besides in his heart and mind, where does the speaker say he felt "sensations sweet" when he remembered the landscape (28)?
2. Which is the best interpretation of lines 30-31, "And passing even into my purer mind/ With tranquil restoration"?
3. What are "copses" (line 14)?
4. What kind of tree does the speaker mention being under?
5. How long has it been since the speaker was last in this place?
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