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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) Clumsy and random movement.
(c) Slow, boring, repetitive work.
(d) Keen and attentive determination.

2. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?
(a) Between lines 8 and 9.
(b) Between lines 12 and 13.
(c) Between lines 11 and 12.
(d) Between lines 4 and 5.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

2. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "B" lines"?

3. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?

4. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?

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

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