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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 would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) To have used rapid movements to shine or polish it.
(b) To have stood up to and turned away its advance.
(c) To have abruptly and rudely responded to it.
(d) To have brushed against its force and been knocked back.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?

2. To whom is the poem dedicated?

3. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?

4. What is "sillion" (line 12)?

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

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