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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) An arrow.
(b) An ice skater.
(c) A swing.
(d) A ball being thrown.

2. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?
(a) Pride.
(b) Awe.
(c) Anticipation.
(d) Ecstasy.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. To whom is the poem dedicated?

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