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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 being referred to in line 10's "thee"?
(a) The speaker.
(b) The air.
(c) Christ.
(d) The windhover.

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

3. 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) Sanctified.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Hypnotic.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?

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

3. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

4. In lines 5 and 6, what is the bird's motion compared to?

5. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?

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