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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?
(a) Between lines 12 and 13.
(b) Between lines 11 and 12.
(c) Between lines 8 and 9.
(d) Between lines 4 and 5.

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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) "Him."
(c) "Level."
(d) "Air."

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

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

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

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

12. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?
(a) A and C.
(b) A and B.
(c) B and C.
(d) B and D.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To whom is the poem dedicated?

4. What is "sillion" (line 12)?

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

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