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

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

3. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?
(a) Rapturous.
(b) Sanctified.
(c) Hypnotic.
(d) Dangerous.

4. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "A" lines?
(a) Masculine.
(b) Slant.
(c) Eye.
(d) Feminine.

5. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "B" lines"?
(a) Slant.
(b) Masculine.
(c) Eye.
(d) Feminine.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?

3. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?

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

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

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