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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) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(b) Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
(c) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(d) Christina Rossetti.

2. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?
(a) B and D.
(b) B and C.
(c) A and B.
(d) A and C.

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

4. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "B" lines"?
(a) Feminine.
(b) Masculine.
(c) Eye.
(d) Slant.

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) "Him."
(b) "Level."
(c) "Air."
(d) "Rolling."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the common name of the titular bird?

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

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

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