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

2. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) To have used rapid movements to shine or polish it.
(b) To have brushed against its force and been knocked back.
(c) To have abruptly and rudely responded to it.
(d) To have stood up to and turned away its advance.

3. 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) "Him."
(c) "Air."
(d) "Rolling."

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

5. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?
(a) Asyndeton.
(b) Atanaclasis.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Anaphora.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the poem dedicated?

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

3. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?

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

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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