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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) Covering.
(b) Like a nun's habit.
(c) Muffling.
(d) Rippling.

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

3. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?
(a) Alliteration and internal rhyme.
(b) Internal rhyme and onomatopoeia.
(c) Onomatopoeia and metaphor.
(d) Metaphor and alliteration.

4. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?
(a) A bird.
(b) A falconer.
(c) A knight.
(d) A horse.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom is the poem dedicated?

3. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?

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

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

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