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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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 stood up to and turned away its advance.
(c) To have abruptly and rudely responded to it.
(d) To have brushed against its force and been knocked back.

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

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

10. 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.

11. 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) "Rolling."
(c) "Level."
(d) "Him."

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. To whom is the poem dedicated?

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

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