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

2. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Atanaclasis.
(d) Anaphora.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

5. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?

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