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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) A ball being thrown.
(b) A swing.
(c) An arrow.
(d) An ice skater.

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

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

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

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

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

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) Sanctified.
(b) Rapturous.
(c) Hypnotic.
(d) Dangerous.

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

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

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

11. 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 abruptly and rudely responded to it.
(c) To have used rapid movements to shine or polish it.
(d) To have stood up to and turned away its advance.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "The Windhover"?

2. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?

3. To whom is the poem dedicated?

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"?

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

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