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

2. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?
(a) The air.
(b) The dawn.
(c) Daylight.
(d) Flight.

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

4. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) Euphony and personification.
(b) Consonance and assonance.
(c) Personification and consonance.
(d) Assonance and euphony.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In lines 5 and 6, what is the bird's motion compared to?

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

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

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

5. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?

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