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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. To whom is the poem dedicated?
(a) The poet's spouse.
(b) Matthew Arnold.
(c) A Victorian minister.
(d) Christ.

2. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Verbal irony.
(d) Hyperbole.

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

4. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?
(a) "Level."
(b) "Rolling."
(c) "Air."
(d) "Him."

5. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?
(a) Christ.
(b) The speaker.
(c) The windhover.
(d) The air.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?

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

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

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

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"?

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