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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

14. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?
(a) Keen and attentive determination.
(b) Clumsy and random movement.
(c) Slow, boring, repetitive work.
(d) A heavy feeling of apathy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?

4. To whom is the poem dedicated?

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

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