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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) Rapturous.
(c) Sanctified.
(d) Hypnotic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?

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

3. To whom is the poem dedicated?

4. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?

5. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?

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