Felix Randal Quizzes

Felix Randal Quiz

1 This poem uses a rhyme scheme consistently.
False

True
2 This poem is a sonnet.

True

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

Priest and parishioner

Brother and sister

Father and son
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?
Trochaic meter

Sprung rhythm

Free rhythm

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 transgress or to violate

To feel violated

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

A priest

A student

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

To be forgiven for sin

To meddle with something

A sort of stinging insect
10 How did Felix Randal feel about the speaker?
He felt more uneasy over time

He felt singled-out

He felt comforted

He felt even more scorned by God
11 What is Felix's transformation in this poem?
He spends time abroad and comes back much more cultured

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 grows from a nervous adolescent to a boisterous man
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?
His parents

His son

The speaker

God
14 What happens to the drayhorse in this poem?
Felix works on its hooves

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
15 What place do the "four disorders" have in this poem?
They create Felix's impatience and skepticism

They cause the speaker's aversiveness to Felix

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 become incapable of doing his job

That Felix has fallen ill

That Felix has attempted to leave his deathbed

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

God's plan

The forest outside the speaker's house

Felix's body
18 What word has the closest meaning to "tendered" in this poem?
Mended

Gilded

Softened

Given
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

God

Felix Randal

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

God's

The dreyhorse's

The speaker's
22 What is the speaker's duty mentioned in the first line?
To try to heal Felix

To baptize Felix

To shoe horses

To give Felix his final rites
23 "This seeing the ____ endears them to us, us too it endears."
sick

downtrodden

hopeful

sorry
24 Felix Randal is absolved of his sins before his death.

True

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

True

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