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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) To have stood up to and turned away its advance.
(b) To have brushed against its force and been knocked back.
(c) To have abruptly and rudely responded to it.
(d) To have used rapid movements to shine or polish it.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "A" lines?

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

3. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?

4. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?

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

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