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for his innovative verses Originally successful but spurned after his turn to more deeply religious verse Virtually unpublished and unread 5 “Pied Beauty” differs from the majority of devotional nature poetry in which of the following ways: It doesn't use iambic pentameter or rhyme It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