1 Gerard Manley Hopkins is often considered a transitional figure between which two major periods in the history of poetry? Victorian and Modernist Renaissance and Victorian Romantic and Victorian Romantic and Modernist 2 Which of the following statements about the relationship between Hopkins’s faith and his poetry is true? From a young age, Hopkins saw writing poetry as one of the best ways to praise God After his conversion to Catholicism, Hopkins renounced poetry and never wrote again Though deeply religious, Hopkins believed in maintaining a separation between his writing and his faith Hopkins struggled to reconcile religion and poetry even as his faith informed his aesthetic 3 Which aspect of Hopkins’s poetry is widely considered his most significant contribution to modern and post-modern poetics? His refusal to use rhyme or iambic pentameter in his poems His abandonment of traditional Christian conceptions of God His rejection of the Romatic obsession with nature His innovative prosody and emphasis on creating dense, often difficult soundscapes in his work 4 During his life, Gerard Manley Hopkins was… Virtually unpublished and unread Often criticized for his irregular meter Originally successful but spurned after his turn to more deeply religious verse Widely celebrated for his innovative verses 5 “Pied Beauty” differs from the majority of devotional nature poetry in which of the following ways: It has no clear narrative structure It doesn't use iambic pentameter or rhyme It includes only two direct references to God It emphasizes specificity rather than an overarching design 6 “Pied Beauty” is an example of which of the following poetic forms: A ballad The epistolary poem Postlyric poetry The curtal sonnet 7 Which of the following events marked a major shift in Hopkins’s life and poetry? The death of his mother His failure to become a painter His conversion to Catholicism His break with his close friend Robert Bridges 8 Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty” most clearly demonstrates the influence of: William Wordsworth Classical music Biblical psalms Conversion narratives 9 The syntax in lines 4-9 of "Pied Beauty" is an example of: Parataxis Alliteration Metonymy Anaphora 10 For which formal innovation is Hopkins best known? Sprung Rhythm Trochaic Pentameter The Curtal Sonnett The Petrarchean Sonnett 11 The first verse paragraph of "Pied Beauty" is composed of: The first half of a traditional sonnett Three couplets without a clear rhyme scheme Two tercets with no clear rhyme scheme Two tercets with the rhyme scheme ABCABC 12 The most pronounced sonic effect in "Pied Beauty" is: Alliteration Assonance Consonance Rhyme 13 The speaker of "Pied Beauty" is best described as: The hero of the poem Epistolary first-person A mythological figure Omnicient first-person 14 Hopkins's "curtal sonnet" most closely resembles: The Petrachean sonnet The romantic nature lyric The Shakespearean sonnet A hymn from the Bible 15 In "Pied Beauty," Hopkins uses the titular colored pattern as a means to explore which of the following themes? The nature of God's design His conversion to Catholicism The human destruction of the natural world The poetic tradition of Romanticism