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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. 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) "Level."
(c) "Air."
(d) "Him."

5. 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 abruptly and rudely responded to it.
(d) To have stood up to and turned away its advance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the common name of the titular bird?

4. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?

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

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