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

2. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?
(a) Covering.
(b) Like a nun's habit.
(c) Muffling.
(d) Rippling.

3. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) Euphony and personification.
(b) Assonance and euphony.
(c) Consonance and assonance.
(d) Personification and consonance.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?

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

4. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

5. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?

(see the answer key)

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