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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In lines 5 and 6, what is the bird's motion compared to?
(a) A swing.
(b) A ball being thrown.
(c) An ice skater.
(d) An arrow.

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

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

5. Who is the author of "The Windhover"?
(a) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(b) Christina Rossetti.
(c) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(d) Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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

7. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Sanctified.
(c) Rapturous.
(d) Hypnotic.

8. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) To have used rapid movements to shine or polish it.
(b) To have brushed against its force and been knocked back.
(c) To have stood up to and turned away its advance.
(d) To have abruptly and rudely responded to it.

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

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

11. 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) Euphemism.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Oxymoron.

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

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

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

15. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) Assonance and euphony.
(b) Consonance and assonance.
(c) Personification and consonance.
(d) Euphony and personification.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the poem dedicated?

2. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?

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

4. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?

5. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?

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