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?
Father and son

Friends

Brother and sister

Priest and parishioner
4 This poem is inspired by a real-life scenario that Hopkins encountered.

False

True
5 Hopkins is best known for developing what form of rhythm?
Trochaic meter

Sprung rhythm

Free rhythm

Iambic pentameter
6 What does the word "ransom" mean in this poem?
Belief in God

A payment demanded for the release of a hostage or prisoner

Relief from pain

To deliver from sin
7 What does "offended" mean in this poem?
To transgress or to violate

To feel insulted

To fend something off

To feel violated
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?
A sort of stinging insect

To be forgiven for sin

To meddle with something

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

He felt comforted

He felt even more scorned by God

He felt more uneasy over time
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 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 as if he and Felix are brothers

He feels a responsibility to Felix's parents

He feels reluctant to proselytize to a man who does not believe in God
13 Whom does Felix curse?
His son

The speaker

His parents

God
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 cause the speaker's aversiveness to Felix

They create Felix's impatience and skepticism

They create Felix's illness

They cause the speaker's own illness
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 died

That Felix has become incapable of doing his job
17 What does the "it" in "reason rambled in it" refer to?
God's plan

Felix's body

The speaker's mind

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

Softened

Gilded

Mended
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"?
Himself

The dreyhorse

God

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

The dreyhorse's

The speaker's

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

To try to heal Felix

To shoe horses

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

downtrodden

hopeful

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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