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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?
2. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?
3. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
4. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?
5. What is "sillion" (line 12)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is a "windhover," and what characteristic of its flight is focused on in this poem?
2. What Christian paradox is expressed when the speaker refers to the bird as both a "minion" and a "dauphin" (lines 1-2)?
3. How do the images in the last three lines support the idea that there is "no wonder" in the kestrel's fight (line 9)?
4. What is the relationship of the expression "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air" (lines 2-3) to the later reference to "the rein of a wimpling wing" (line 4)?
5. What are the literal and figurative meanings of the poem's references to a "dauphin" and a "chevalier"?
6. What makes a creature like the windhover an appropriate symbol for Christ?
7. Describe the poetic form of "The Windhover."
8. In "The Windhover," who is speaking, and what moves him to speak?
9. What is the meaning of the simile contained in lines 6 and 7: " As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding/ Rebuffed the big wind"?
10. Describe the relationship of the content in the poem's final six lines to the content in lines 1-8.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that analyzes how Hopkins's devotion to Ignation practices is reflected in two of his sonnets. Describe the Ignation practices he engaged in, explain how these translate into the world of literature, and then offer an analytical reading of two of Hopkins's sonnets that supports your claims. Support your observations with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poems. Be sure to credit your sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that explicates the various techniques that "The Windhover" uses to convey motion. Support your observations with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from "The Windhover." If you consult outside sources, be sure to credit these in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that analyzes the symbol of the kestrel in "The Windhover." Support your observations with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from "The Windhover." If you consult outside sources, be sure to credit these in MLA format.
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