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?

Friends

Father and son

Brother and sister

Priest and parishioner
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

Free rhythm

Sprung rhythm

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

To deliver from sin

Relief from pain

A payment demanded for the release of a hostage or prisoner

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

To transgress or to violate

To fend something off

To feel violated

To feel insulted
8 What was Felix Randal's occupation?

A farrier

A coachman

A priest

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

To sort something out

A sort of stinging insect

To meddle with something

To be forgiven for sin
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 goes from being strong and young to weak and sickly

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 a responsibility to Felix's parents

He feels as if he and Felix are brothers
13 Whom does Felix curse?

The speaker

His son

His parents

God
14 What happens to the drayhorse in this poem?

It dies at almost the same time as Felix

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

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 create Felix's impatience and skepticism

They cause the speaker's own illness

They create Felix's illness
16 What does the speaker discover at the beginning of the poem?

That Felix has become incapable of doing his job

That Felix has fallen ill

That Felix has died

That Felix has attempted to leave his deathbed
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?

Given

Mended

Gilded

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

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

He moves into a more formal rhythm to elegize Felix

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"?

Felix Randal

The dreyhorse

God

Himself
21 Whose tongue and tears are mentioned in the poem?

The dreyhorse's

The speaker's

God's

Felix Randal's
22 What is the speaker's duty mentioned in the first line?

To give Felix his final rites

To baptize Felix

To shoe horses

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

sick

hopeful

sorry

downtrodden
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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