Felix Randal Quizzes

Felix Randal Quiz

1 This poem uses a rhyme scheme consistently.
True

False
2 This poem is a sonnet.

True

False
3 Which of the following best describes the relationship between the speaker and Felix Randal?
Priest and parishioner

Brother and sister

Father and son

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?
Free rhythm

Sprung rhythm

Trochaic meter

Iambic pentameter
6 What does the word "ransom" mean in this poem?
Relief from pain

To deliver from sin

A payment demanded for the release of a hostage or prisoner

Belief in God
7 What does "offended" mean in this poem?
To fend something off

To feel insulted

To feel violated

To transgress or to violate
8 What was Felix Randal's occupation?
A student

A farrier

A priest

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

To be forgiven for sin

A sort of stinging insect

To sort something out
10 How did Felix Randal feel about the speaker?
He felt comforted

He felt singled-out

He felt more uneasy over time

He felt even more scorned by God
11 What is Felix's transformation in this poem?
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

He goes from being strong and young to weak and sickly
12 How does the speaker feel about Felix Randal?
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

He is touched by Felix's grief at the prospect of his own death
13 Whom does Felix curse?
The speaker

His parents

God

His son
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

The speaker rides it to be at Felix's side in his last moments

Felix works on its hooves

It dies at almost the same time as Felix
15 What place do the "four disorders" have in this poem?
They cause the speaker's aversiveness to Felix

They create Felix's illness

They cause the speaker's own illness

They create Felix's impatience and skepticism
16 What does the speaker discover at the beginning of the poem?
That Felix has attempted to leave his deathbed

That Felix has fallen ill

That Felix has become incapable of doing his job

That Felix has died
17 What does the "it" in "reason rambled in it" refer to?
The forest outside the speaker's house

God's plan

Felix's body

The speaker's mind
18 What word has the closest meaning to "tendered" in this poem?
Given

Gilded

Mended

Softened
19 What does Hopkins do with the rhythm in the final line?
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

He makes it become singsongy, like a nursery rhyme to Felix's young self
20 Whom does the speaker describe as "big-boned and hardy-handsome"?
The dreyhorse

God

Felix Randal

Himself
21 Whose tongue and tears are mentioned in the poem?
The speaker's

Felix Randal's

God's

The dreyhorse's
22 What is the speaker's duty mentioned in the first line?
To give Felix his final rites

To shoe horses

To try to heal Felix

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

downtrodden

sorry

sick
24 Felix Randal is absolved of his sins before his death.
True

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

False

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