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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. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Rapturous.
(c) Hypnotic.
(d) Sanctified.
2. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Metaphor.
3. Who is the author of "The Windhover"?
(a) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(b) Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
(c) Christina Rossetti.
(d) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
4. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?
(a) The air.
(b) Daylight.
(c) The dawn.
(d) Flight.
5. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?
(a) Clumsy and random movement.
(b) A heavy feeling of apathy.
(c) Keen and attentive determination.
(d) Slow, boring, repetitive work.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?
2. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "A" lines?
3. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?
4. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?
5. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?
This section contains 204 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) |
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