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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Dangerous.
(c) Sanctified.
(d) Hypnotic.

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

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) Imagery.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Oxymoron.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?

2. In lines 5 and 6, what is the bird's motion compared to?

3. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

4. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?

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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