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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?

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

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

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