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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 speaker.
(b) The windhover.
(c) Christ.
(d) The air.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In lines 5 and 6, what is the bird's motion compared to?

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