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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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 is a "chevalier" (line 11)?

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