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

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

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

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

5. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?
(a) Awe.
(b) Ecstasy.
(c) Anticipation.
(d) Pride.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?

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

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

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

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