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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 4 and 5.
(b) Between lines 8 and 9.
(c) Between lines 12 and 13.
(d) Between lines 11 and 12.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) To have abruptly and rudely responded to it.
(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 stood up to and turned away its advance.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom is the poem dedicated?

3. What techniques are evident in the phrase "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)?

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