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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) To have used rapid movements to shine or polish it.
(b) To have abruptly and rudely responded to it.
(c) To have stood up to and turned away its advance.
(d) To have brushed against its force and been knocked back.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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