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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 "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?
(a) A heavy feeling of apathy.
(b) Keen and attentive determination.
(c) Slow, boring, repetitive work.
(d) Clumsy and random movement.

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) Dangerous.
(d) Rapturous.

3. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?
(a) Christ.
(b) The speaker.
(c) The air.
(d) The windhover.

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

5. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?
(a) A bird.
(b) A horse.
(c) A knight.
(d) A falconer.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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