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

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

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

4. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?
(a) Asyndeton.
(b) Atanaclasis.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Anaphora.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?

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

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

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