Felix Randal Quizzes

Felix Randal Quiz

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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?

Father and son

Priest and parishioner

Friends

Brother and sister
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?

Iambic pentameter

Sprung rhythm

Free rhythm

Trochaic meter
6 What does the word "ransom" mean in this poem?

To deliver from sin

Belief in God

A payment demanded for the release of a hostage or prisoner

Relief from pain
7 What does "offended" mean in this poem?

To feel insulted

To transgress or to violate

To feel violated

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

A student

A coachman

A farrier

A priest
9 What does "fettle" mean in the context of this poem?

To be forgiven for sin

To sort something out

A sort of stinging insect

To meddle with something
10 How did Felix Randal feel about the speaker?

He felt singled-out

He felt more uneasy over time

He felt comforted

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

He grows from a nervous adolescent to a boisterous man

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

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 a responsibility to Felix's parents

He feels as if he and Felix are brothers

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

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

God

His parents

The speaker

His son
14 What happens to the drayhorse in this poem?

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

It dies at almost the same time as Felix

Its hooves show the first signs of Felix's illness, which causes him to do his work more carelessly

Felix works on its hooves
15 What place do the "four disorders" have in this poem?

They cause the speaker's aversiveness to Felix

They cause the speaker's own illness

They create Felix's 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 become incapable of doing his job

That Felix has died

That Felix has fallen ill
17 What does the "it" in "reason rambled in it" refer to?

The forest outside the speaker's house

Felix's body

The speaker's mind

God's plan
18 What word has the closest meaning to "tendered" in this poem?

Mended

Given

Gilded

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 falter so it resembles Felix's faltering life

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

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

Felix Randal

Himself

God
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 shoe horses

To give Felix his final rites

To baptize Felix

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

sick

sorry

hopeful

downtrodden
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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