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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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