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

2. 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) Imagery.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Metaphor.

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

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

5. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?
(a) A heavy feeling of apathy.
(b) Clumsy and random movement.
(c) Slow, boring, repetitive work.
(d) Keen and attentive determination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "A" lines?

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

3. To whom is the poem dedicated?

4. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?

5. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?

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