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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?
(a) Between lines 11 and 12.
(b) Between lines 8 and 9.
(c) Between lines 12 and 13.
(d) Between lines 4 and 5.

2. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?
(a) A bird.
(b) A horse.
(c) A knight.
(d) A falconer.

3. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?
(a) Awe.
(b) Anticipation.
(c) Pride.
(d) Ecstasy.

4. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Imagery.

5. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?
(a) Alliteration and internal rhyme.
(b) Internal rhyme and onomatopoeia.
(c) Onomatopoeia and metaphor.
(d) Metaphor and alliteration.

6. To whom is the poem dedicated?
(a) Matthew Arnold.
(b) Christ.
(c) A Victorian minister.
(d) The poet's spouse.

7. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?
(a) Daylight.
(b) Minion.
(c) Kingdom.
(d) Morning.

8. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?
(a) The speaker.
(b) The windhover.
(c) Christ.
(d) The air.

9. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "A" lines?
(a) Eye.
(b) Masculine.
(c) Feminine.
(d) Slant.

10. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Personification.
(c) Verbal irony.
(d) Apostrophe.

11. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?
(a) Atanaclasis.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Asyndeton.

12. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?
(a) Covering.
(b) Muffling.
(c) Like a nun's habit.
(d) Rippling.

13. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?
(a) A and B.
(b) B and D.
(c) B and C.
(d) A and C.

14. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?
(a) Buckle.
(b) Soar.
(c) Break.
(d) Stir.

15. What is "sillion" (line 12)?
(a) A type of soil.
(b) An uncountable amount.
(c) The sparkling of a diamond.
(d) Sunshine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the common name of the titular bird?

2. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

3. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

4. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?

5. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "B" lines"?

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