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

2. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?
(a) Metaphor and alliteration.
(b) Alliteration and internal rhyme.
(c) Onomatopoeia and metaphor.
(d) Internal rhyme and onomatopoeia.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?

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