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

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) Dangerous.
(c) Hypnotic.
(d) Rapturous.

3. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "B" lines"?
(a) Slant.
(b) Masculine.
(c) Eye.
(d) Feminine.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "sillion" (line 12)?

2. Who is the author of "The Windhover"?

3. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "A" lines?

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

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

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