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

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

3. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?
(a) Minion.
(b) Kingdom.
(c) Daylight.
(d) Morning.

4. To whom is the poem dedicated?
(a) The poet's spouse.
(b) A Victorian minister.
(c) Matthew Arnold.
(d) Christ.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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