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

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

3. In lines 5 and 6, what is the bird's motion compared to?
(a) A swing.
(b) A ball being thrown.
(c) An arrow.
(d) An ice skater.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?

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

5. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "B" lines"?

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