Felix Randal Quizzes

Felix Randal Quiz

1 This poem uses a rhyme scheme consistently.

False

True
2 This poem is a sonnet.
False

True
3 Which of the following best describes the relationship between the speaker and Felix Randal?
Brother and sister

Father and son

Priest and parishioner

Friends
4 This poem is inspired by a real-life scenario that Hopkins encountered.

True

False
5 Hopkins is best known for developing what form of rhythm?
Sprung rhythm

Free rhythm

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic meter
6 What does the word "ransom" mean in this poem?
A payment demanded for the release of a hostage or prisoner

To deliver from sin

Relief from pain

Belief in God
7 What does "offended" mean in this poem?
To feel insulted

To feel violated

To transgress or to violate

To fend something off
8 What was Felix Randal's occupation?
A coachman

A priest

A farrier

A student
9 What does "fettle" mean in the context of this poem?
To meddle with something

To sort something out

To be forgiven for sin

A sort of stinging insect
10 How did Felix Randal feel about the speaker?
He felt more uneasy over time

He felt singled-out

He felt even more scorned by God

He felt comforted
11 What is Felix's transformation in this poem?
He goes from being strong and young to weak and sickly

He learns the nature of hard work through his job as a farrier

He grows from a nervous adolescent to a boisterous man

He spends time abroad and comes back much more cultured
12 How does the speaker feel about Felix Randal?
He is touched by Felix's grief at the prospect of his own death

He feels reluctant to proselytize to a man who does not believe in God

He feels as if he and Felix are brothers

He feels a responsibility to Felix's parents
13 Whom does Felix curse?
His parents

God

His son

The speaker
14 What happens to the drayhorse in this poem?
Its hooves show the first signs of Felix's illness, which causes him to do his work more carelessly

It dies at almost the same time as Felix

Felix works on its hooves

The speaker rides it to be at Felix's side in his last moments
15 What place do the "four disorders" have in this poem?
They create Felix's illness

They create Felix's impatience and skepticism

They cause the speaker's own illness

They cause the speaker's aversiveness to Felix
16 What does the speaker discover at the beginning of the poem?
That Felix has fallen ill

That Felix has died

That Felix has become incapable of doing his job

That Felix has attempted to leave his deathbed
17 What does the "it" in "reason rambled in it" refer to?
The speaker's mind

Felix's body

God's plan

The forest outside the speaker's house
18 What word has the closest meaning to "tendered" in this poem?
Softened

Mended

Given

Gilded
19 What does Hopkins do with the rhythm in the final line?
He makes it become singsongy, like a nursery rhyme to Felix's young self

He moves into a more formal rhythm to elegize Felix

He makes it resemble the noise of Felix hammering the horse's hoof

He makes it falter so it resembles Felix's faltering life
20 Whom does the speaker describe as "big-boned and hardy-handsome"?
The dreyhorse

Himself

Felix Randal

God
21 Whose tongue and tears are mentioned in the poem?
God's

The dreyhorse's

Felix Randal's

The speaker's
22 What is the speaker's duty mentioned in the first line?
To try to heal Felix

To give Felix his final rites

To shoe horses

To baptize Felix
23 "This seeing the ____ endears them to us, us too it endears."
downtrodden

hopeful

sick

sorry
24 Felix Randal is absolved of his sins before his death.
False

True
25 The speaker regrets not being at Felix's side sooner.
False

True

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