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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. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?
(a) A horse.
(b) A knight.
(c) A falconer.
(d) A bird.
2. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) Assonance and euphony.
(b) Euphony and personification.
(c) Consonance and assonance.
(d) Personification and consonance.
3. 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."
4. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?
(a) The dawn.
(b) Daylight.
(c) Flight.
(d) The air.
5. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?
(a) A and C.
(b) A and B.
(c) B and D.
(d) B and C.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?
2. Who is the author of "The Windhover"?
3. What is the common name of the titular bird?
4. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?
5. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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"?
2. What Christian paradox is expressed when the speaker refers to the bird as both a "minion" and a "dauphin" (lines 1-2)?
3. In "The Windhover," who is speaking, and what moves him to speak?
4. What makes a creature like the windhover an appropriate symbol for Christ?
5. What is a "windhover," and what characteristic of its flight is focused on in this poem?
6. How do the images in the last three lines support the idea that there is "no wonder" in the kestrel's fight (line 9)?
7. Describe the poetic form of "The Windhover."
8. What are the literal and figurative meanings of the poem's references to a "dauphin" and a "chevalier"?
9. Describe the relationship of the content in the poem's final six lines to the content in lines 1-8.
10. 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)?
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