Question 1

To whom did Hopkins dedicate 'The Windhover'?&#10;A)mary&#10;B)peter&#10;C)moses&#10;D)christ

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"The Windhover" by Gerard Manley Hopkins is dedicated to "Christ our Lord," reflecting the poet's deep religious convictions and his intention to highlight the spiritual significance of the natural world.

Question 2

Hopkins read classics at which of these universities?&#10;A)oxford&#10;B)cambridge&#10;C)dublin&#10;D)leeds

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Gerard Manley Hopkins studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford.

Question 3

What event inspired Hopkins to return to writing poetry in 1875?&#10;A)famine&#10;B)earthquake&#10;C)shipwreck&#10;D)war

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The event that inspired Gerard Manley Hopkins to return to writing poetry in 1875 was a shipwreck, specifically the Deutschland incident, which led him to compose "The Wreck of the Deutschland."

Question 4

Hopkins coined which of these terms to describe the individual uniqueness of each creation?&#10;A)inscape&#10;B)instress&#10;C)signifier&#10;D)sprung rhythm

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Hopkins coined the term "inscape" to describe the unique essence or individuality of each creation.

Question 5

Which language that Hopkins learned at St Beuno's seminary greatly influenced his poetry?&#10;A)welsh&#10;B)gaelic&#10;C)erse&#10;D)cornish

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Welsh language and its rhythms had a significant influence on Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry during his time at St Beuno's seminary.

Question 6

&#34;Kingdom of day lights dauphin dapple dawn drawn falcon&#34; Identify the figure of speech used.&#10;A)simile&#10;B)metaphor&#10;C)assonance&#10;D)alliteration

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The phrase uses alliteration, which is the repetition of the initial consonant sounds in closely positioned words, as seen in "day," "dauphin," "dapple," "dawn," and "drawn."

Question 7

What shine &#34;blue beak&#34;?&#10;A)sky&#10;B)feathers&#10;C)embers&#10;D)eyes

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Embers can shine with a blue hue, often due to the presence of certain chemicals or high temperatures that produce blue light.

Question 8

Who published the first collected edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poems in 1918?&#10;A)robert bridges&#10;B)stephen spender&#10;C)richard dixon&#10;D)coventry patmore

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Robert Bridges, a friend of Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom at the time, published the first collected edition of Hopkins' poems in 1918, introducing Hopkins' innovative work to a wider audience.

Question 9

Which order did Gerard Manley Hopkins join?&#10;A)carmelite&#10;B)jesuit&#10;C)franciscan&#10;D)benedictine

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Gerard Manley Hopkins joined the Society of Jesus, which is known as the Jesuits. He became a Jesuit priest, which significantly influenced his poetry and spiritual writings.

Question 10

Identify the term that is not used by Hopkins to describe the Windhover?&#10;A)minion,&#10;B)dauphin&#10;C)falcon&#10;D)beast

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Hopkins uses terms like "minion," "dauphin," and "falcon" to describe the Windhover, but not "beast."

Question 11

The title of Yeats' 'The Second Coming' is a reference to what event?&#10;A)the return of jesus christ&#10;B)world war i&#10;C)world war ii&#10;D)the modernism era

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Question 12

Where is Byzantium located?&#10;A)ireland&#10;B)scotland&#10;C)turkey&#10;D)italy

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Question 13

Name the ninth century Byzantine Emperor referred to in the poem 'Sailing to Byzantium&#10;A)theodore&#10;B)tiresias&#10;C)theophilus&#10;D)trescothick

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Question 14

What does gyre mean?&#10;A)spirit&#10;B)spiral&#10;C)sphinx&#10;D)stone image

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Question 15

In what sense does Yeats use the term 'Spiritus Mundi'?&#10;A)collective meaning of broken images&#10;B)collective unconscious that all human beings share&#10;C)collective myths that society believe&#10;D)collective memory of trauma

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Question 16

What does &#34;the centre cannot hold&#34; mean?&#10;A)jesus christ cannot save us&#10;B)summer cannot last forever&#10;C)the world's core values and meanings are falling apart&#10;D)the heart cannot sustain the mind

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Question 17

Which month is the &#34;cruellest&#34;?&#10;A)september&#10;B)april&#10;C)may&#10;D)december

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Question 18

&#34;By the waters of ____ I sat down and wept...&#34;&#10;A)the seine&#10;B)the nile&#10;C)the thames&#10;D)leman

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Question 19

Which of the following cities is mentioned in &#34;The Waste Land&#34;?&#10;A)timbuktu&#10;B)marseilles&#10;C)novgorod&#10;D)vienna

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Question 20

Magnus Martyr is a:&#10;A)ocean&#10;B)church&#10;C)epic poem&#10;D)football stadium

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Question 21

The narrator is told that he should fear death by:&#10;A)fire&#10;B)water&#10;C)starvation&#10;D)disease

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Question 22

&#34;When lovely woman stoops to folly&#34; is an allusion to:&#10;A)spanish tragedy&#10;B)ovid's metamorphoses&#10;C)hamlet&#10;D)oliver goldsmith's the vicar of wakefield

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Question 23

Who rapes Philomela?&#10;A)tereus&#10;B)odysseus&#10;C)the typist&#10;D)zeus

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Question 24

Translate &#34;Oed' und leer das Meer&#34;&#10;A)&#34;the ship has arrived, appearing on the horizon&#34;&#10;B)&#34;a kiss is just a kiss&#34;&#10;C)&#34;isolde is lost forever&#34;&#10;D)&#34;desolate and empty is the sea&#34;

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Question 25

In what city is Queen Victoria Street (in the poem)?&#10;A)new york&#10;B)london&#10;C)boston&#10;D)gloucester

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Deck 1: Twentieth Century British Literature up to 1940: Hopkins, Yeats, and Eliot