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

2. 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."

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

4. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?
(a) A knight.
(b) A falconer.
(c) A horse.
(d) A bird.

5. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?
(a) Alliteration and internal rhyme.
(b) Onomatopoeia and metaphor.
(c) Internal rhyme and onomatopoeia.
(d) Metaphor and alliteration.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?

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

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