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

2. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?
(a) Like a nun's habit.
(b) Covering.
(c) Muffling.
(d) Rippling.

3. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "B" lines"?
(a) Eye.
(b) Slant.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Feminine.

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

5. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?
(a) Buckle.
(b) Break.
(c) Soar.
(d) Stir.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?

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

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

4. What is the common name of the titular bird?

5. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "A" lines?

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