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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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"?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Euphemism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is the author of "The Windhover"?

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

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