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

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

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

4. What is the common name of the titular bird?
(a) Osprey.
(b) Hawk.
(c) Kestrel.
(d) Kite.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?

4. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?

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

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