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

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

3. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?
(a) Daylight.
(b) Minion.
(c) Morning.
(d) Kingdom.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?

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

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 5 and 6, what is the bird's motion compared to?

5. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?

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