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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 does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?
(a) Clumsy and random movement.
(b) A heavy feeling of apathy.
(c) Slow, boring, repetitive work.
(d) Keen and attentive determination.

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

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

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) Buckle.
(d) Break.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?

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"?

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

4. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?

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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