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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. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?
(a) Between lines 8 and 9.
(b) Between lines 12 and 13.
(c) Between lines 4 and 5.
(d) Between lines 11 and 12.

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

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

4. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?
(a) The windhover.
(b) The air.
(c) The speaker.
(d) Christ.

5. To whom is the poem dedicated?
(a) Christ.
(b) The poet's spouse.
(c) Matthew Arnold.
(d) A Victorian minister.

Short Answer Questions

1. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?

2. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?

3. In lines 5 and 6, what is the bird's motion compared to?

4. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

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

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