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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 techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) Euphony and personification.
(b) Personification and consonance.
(c) Assonance and euphony.
(d) Consonance and assonance.

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

3. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?
(a) Sanctified.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Hypnotic.
(d) Rapturous.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?

4. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?

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

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