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

2. What is "sillion" (line 12)?
(a) The sparkling of a diamond.
(b) A type of soil.
(c) Sunshine.
(d) An uncountable amount.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?

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

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

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 is a "chevalier" (line 11)?

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