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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?

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

5. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?

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