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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 techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) Personification and consonance.
(b) Consonance and assonance.
(c) Euphony and personification.
(d) Assonance and euphony.

2. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) To have stood up to and turned away its advance.
(b) To have used rapid movements to shine or polish it.
(c) To have brushed against its force and been knocked back.
(d) To have abruptly and rudely responded to it.

3. 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) Imagery.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Euphemism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the poem dedicated?

2. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?

3. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?

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

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

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