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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 "sillion" (line 12)?
(a) The sparkling of a diamond.
(b) Sunshine.
(c) A type of soil.
(d) An uncountable amount.

2. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?
(a) Slow, boring, repetitive work.
(b) Clumsy and random movement.
(c) Keen and attentive determination.
(d) A heavy feeling of apathy.

3. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?
(a) B and C.
(b) A and B.
(c) A and C.
(d) B and D.

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

5. In lines 5 and 6, what is the bird's motion compared to?
(a) A ball being thrown.
(b) A swing.
(c) An arrow.
(d) An ice skater.

Short Answer Questions

1. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?

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

3. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?

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

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

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