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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 technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Euphemism.

2. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?
(a) "Rolling."
(b) "Level."
(c) "Him."
(d) "Air."

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

4. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?
(a) Onomatopoeia and metaphor.
(b) Metaphor and alliteration.
(c) Alliteration and internal rhyme.
(d) Internal rhyme and onomatopoeia.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?

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

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