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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 "B" lines"?
(a) Eye.
(b) Feminine.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Slant.

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

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

4. 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) "Level."
(c) "Rolling."
(d) "Air."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?

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

4. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?

5. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?

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