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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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"?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Imagery.

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

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

7. 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 used rapid movements to shine or polish it.
(c) To have brushed against its force and been knocked back.
(d) To have abruptly and rudely responded to it.

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

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

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

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

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

13. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?
(a) A and B.
(b) B and C.
(c) B and D.
(d) A and C.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

2. To whom is the poem dedicated?

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

4. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?

5. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?

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