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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) Masculine.
(d) Feminine.

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

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

4. In lines 5 and 6, what is the bird's motion compared to?
(a) A swing.
(b) An arrow.
(c) An ice skater.
(d) A ball being thrown.

5. 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) "Level."
(d) "Him."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom is the poem dedicated?

3. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?

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

5. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?

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