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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. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To whom is the poem dedicated?

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

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

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