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

2. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?
(a) Sanctified.
(b) Rapturous.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Hypnotic.

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"?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Euphemism.

4. 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.

5. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?
(a) The windhover.
(b) Christ.
(c) The air.
(d) The speaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?

2. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?

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

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

5. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?

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