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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) Oxymoron.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Euphemism.

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

3. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?
(a) Morning.
(b) Minion.
(c) Daylight.
(d) Kingdom.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "sillion" (line 12)?

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

3. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?

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

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