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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?

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

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

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