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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 7 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is a "roe" (line 69)?
(a) A wild boar.
(b) A deer.
(c) A fish.
(d) A squirrel.
2. What technique is employed when the speaker says he cannot "paint" the person he used to be?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Symbolism.
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) Epizeuxis.
(c) Polysyndeton.
(d) Caesura.
4. Which sound device is used in line 56, "Have hung upon the beatings of my heart"?
(a) Cacophony.
(b) Elision.
(c) Sibilance.
(d) Alliteration.
5. How did the speaker primarily relate to nature when he was younger?
(a) Through his mind.
(b) Through his spirit.
(c) Through his senses.
(d) Through his actions.
Short Answer Questions
1. What "still sad music" does the speaker hear when he looks at the landscape (93)?
2. In line 75, what word does the speaker use to characterize his boyhood pleasures?
3. What techniques are evidence in line 88's phrase "nor mourn nor murmur"?
4. What technique is employed when the speaker calls the view "food" for future years (line 66)?
5. Which technique is employed in line 64, "While here I stand, not only with the sense"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the speaker say he now sees in nature that he did not see when he was younger?
2. What is the "sad perplexity" the speaker feels in line 62?
3. What evidence does the speaker provide that demonstrates how much he enjoyed the sensations of nature when he was younger?
4. In the third verse paragraph, what argument does the speaker have with himself?
5. In what ways does the speaker compare himself to an animal?
6. What comment does the speaker make about his motivations for being in nature when he was younger?
7. What does the speaker say he is gaining from looking at the scene, besides "present pleasure" (65)?
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