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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the common name of the titular bird?
(a) Hawk.
(b) Osprey.
(c) Kestrel.
(d) Kite.

9. 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) Imagery.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Oxymoron.

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

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

12. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?
(a) Flight.
(b) The dawn.
(c) Daylight.
(d) The air.

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

14. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?
(a) "Rolling."
(b) "Him."
(c) "Air."
(d) "Level."

15. 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) Hypnotic.
(d) Rapturous.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?

3. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?

4. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "A" lines?

5. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?

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