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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Hypnotic.
(d) Rapturous.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) "Rolling."
(b) "Level."
(c) "Him."
(d) "Air."

12. 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) Imagery.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Metaphor.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?

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

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

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

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