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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 air.
(b) Christ.
(c) The speaker.
(d) The windhover.

2. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) To have stood up to and turned away its advance.
(b) To have abruptly and rudely responded to it.
(c) To have used rapid movements to shine or polish it.
(d) To have brushed against its force and been knocked back.

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

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"?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Metaphor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?

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

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

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

5. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?

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