2. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?
(a) Between lines 11 and 12.
(b) Between lines 4 and 5.
(c) Between lines 12 and 13.
(d) Between lines 8 and 9.

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

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

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) Rapturous.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Hypnotic.
(d) Sanctified.

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

7. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?
(a) The dawn.
(b) The air.
(c) Daylight.
(d) Flight.

8. What is the common name of the titular bird?
(a) Osprey.
(b) Hawk.
(c) Kestrel.
(d) Kite.

9. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?
(a) "Him."
(b) "Air."
(c) "Level."
(d) "Rolling."

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

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

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

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

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

15. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?
(a) A knight.
(b) A horse.
(c) A bird.
(d) A falconer.