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

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

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

4. What is the common name of the titular bird?
(a) Kestrel.
(b) Hawk.
(c) Osprey.
(d) Kite.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "sillion" (line 12)?

2. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?

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

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

5. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?

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