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

2. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Personification.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Verbal irony.

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

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

5. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?
(a) "Rolling."
(b) "Level."
(c) "Him."
(d) "Air."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?

4. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?

5. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "B" lines"?

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