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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?
(a) "Him."
(b) "Air."
(c) "Level."
(d) "Rolling."

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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 abruptly and rudely responded to it.
(c) To have used rapid movements to shine or polish it.
(d) To have brushed against its force and been knocked back.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "B" lines"?

3. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?

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

5. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?

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