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

2. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?
(a) Hypnotic.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Rapturous.
(d) Sanctified.

3. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Atanaclasis.

4. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?
(a) Break.
(b) Buckle.
(c) Stir.
(d) Soar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?

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

3. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?

4. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?

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

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