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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 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?
(a) "Him."
(b) "Air."
(c) "Rolling."
(d) "Level."

2. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) To have brushed against its force and been knocked back.
(b) To have stood up to and turned away its advance.
(c) To have abruptly and rudely responded to it.
(d) To have used rapid movements to shine or polish it.

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

4. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?
(a) Rippling.
(b) Like a nun's habit.
(c) Muffling.
(d) Covering.

5. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?
(a) Daylight.
(b) The air.
(c) Flight.
(d) The dawn.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the common name of the titular bird?

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

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

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

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