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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) An uncountable amount.
(b) Sunshine.
(c) A type of soil.
(d) The sparkling of a diamond.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer 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"?

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

3. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "A" lines?

4. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

5. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?

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