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

2. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?
(a) Muffling.
(b) Like a nun's habit.
(c) Covering.
(d) Rippling.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the common name of the titular bird?

2. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?

3. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?

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. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?

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