1 Gerard Manley Hopkins is often considered a transitional figure between which two major periods in the history of poetry? Renaissance and Victorian Victorian and Modernist Romantic and Victorian Romantic and Modernist 2 Which of the following statements about the relationship between Hopkins’s faith and his poetry is true? Hopkins struggled to reconcile religion and poetry even as his faith informed his aesthetic 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 3 Which aspect of Hopkins’s poetry is widely considered his most significant contribution to modern and post-modern poetics? His innovative prosody and emphasis on creating dense, often difficult soundscapes in his work His abandonment of traditional Christian conceptions of God His rejection of the Romatic obsession with nature His refusal to use rhyme or iambic pentameter in his poems 4 During his life, Gerard Manley Hopkins was… Virtually unpublished and unread Often criticized for his irregular meter Widely celebrated for his innovative verses Originally successful but spurned after his turn to more deeply religious verse 5 “Pied Beauty” differs from the majority of devotional nature poetry in which of the following ways: It emphasizes specificity rather than an overarching design It includes only two direct references to God It doesn't use iambic pentameter or rhyme It has no clear narrative structure 6 “Pied Beauty” is an example of which of the following poetic forms: The curtal sonnet The epistolary poem A ballad Postlyric poetry 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 break with his close friend Robert Bridges His conversion to Catholicism 8 Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty” most clearly demonstrates the influence of: Classical music William Wordsworth Conversion narratives Biblical psalms 9 The syntax in lines 4-9 of "Pied Beauty" is an example of: Alliteration Parataxis Anaphora Metonymy 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: Two tercets with no clear rhyme scheme The first half of a traditional sonnett Three couplets without a clear rhyme scheme Two tercets with the rhyme scheme ABCABC 12 The most pronounced sonic effect in "Pied Beauty" is: Alliteration Rhyme Assonance Consonance 13 The speaker of "Pied Beauty" is best described as: The hero of the poem Omnicient first-person Epistolary first-person A mythological figure 14 Hopkins's "curtal sonnet" most closely resembles: A hymn from the Bible The romantic nature lyric The Shakespearean sonnet The Petrachean sonnet 15 In "Pied Beauty," Hopkins uses the titular colored pattern as a means to explore which of the following themes? The poetic tradition of Romanticism His conversion to Catholicism The nature of God's design The human destruction of the natural world