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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 line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?
(a) Soar.
(b) Buckle.
(c) Break.
(d) Stir.

2. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Personification.
(d) Verbal irony.

3. In lines 5 and 6, what is the bird's motion compared to?
(a) An arrow.
(b) A swing.
(c) A ball being thrown.
(d) An ice skater.

4. What is the common name of the titular bird?
(a) Kite.
(b) Kestrel.
(c) Hawk.
(d) Osprey.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?

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

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