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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) Christina Rossetti.
(c) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(d) Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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) Sanctified.
(b) Hypnotic.
(c) Rapturous.
(d) Dangerous.

3. What is "sillion" (line 12)?
(a) The sparkling of a diamond.
(b) Sunshine.
(c) A type of soil.
(d) An uncountable amount.

4. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?
(a) Pride.
(b) Awe.
(c) Anticipation.
(d) Ecstasy.

5. In lines 5 and 6, what is the bird's motion compared to?
(a) A swing.
(b) An arrow.
(c) An ice skater.
(d) A ball being thrown.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?

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

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

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. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?

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