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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 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 abruptly and rudely responded to it.
(c) To have brushed against its force and been knocked back.
(d) To have stood up to and turned away its advance.

2. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?
(a) A and C.
(b) A and B.
(c) B and C.
(d) B and D.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?

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. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?

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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