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

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

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) Dangerous.
(b) Hypnotic.
(c) Rapturous.
(d) Sanctified.

4. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?
(a) Daylight.
(b) The dawn.
(c) Flight.
(d) The air.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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. Who is the author of "The Windhover"?

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