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The Windhover Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?
(a) Christ.
(b) The speaker.
(c) The windhover.
(d) The air.

Short Answer Questions

1. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?

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

3. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "A" lines?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the poetic form of "The Windhover."

2. What Christian paradox is expressed when the speaker refers to the bird as both a "minion" and a "dauphin" (lines 1-2)?

3. What is the meaning of the simile contained in lines 6 and 7: " As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding/ Rebuffed the big wind"?

4. In "The Windhover," who is speaking, and what moves him to speak?

5. What is a "windhover," and what characteristic of its flight is focused on in this poem?

6. Describe the relationship of the content in the poem's final six lines to the content in lines 1-8.

7. How do the images in the last three lines support the idea that there is "no wonder" in the kestrel's fight (line 9)?

8. What makes a creature like the windhover an appropriate symbol for Christ?

9. What is the relationship of the expression "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air" (lines 2-3) to the later reference to "the rein of a wimpling wing" (line 4)?

10. What are the literal and figurative meanings of the poem's references to a "dauphin" and a "chevalier"?

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