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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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) Rapturous.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Sanctified.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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