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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Windhover," lines 1-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Imagery.

2. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?
(a) A and B.
(b) B and C.
(c) B and D.
(d) A and C.

3. Who is the author of "The Windhover"?
(a) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(b) Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
(c) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(d) Christina Rossetti.

4. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?
(a) Anticipation.
(b) Ecstasy.
(c) Awe.
(d) Pride.

5. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?
(a) The dawn.
(b) The air.
(c) Daylight.
(d) Flight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?

2. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "A" lines?

3. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

4. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?

5. What is the common name of the titular bird?

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