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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 device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?
(a) Verbal irony.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Personification.
(d) Hyperbole.

2. What is the common name of the titular bird?
(a) Kestrel.
(b) Kite.
(c) Osprey.
(d) Hawk.

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

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

5. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?
(a) Between lines 4 and 5.
(b) Between lines 11 and 12.
(c) Between lines 8 and 9.
(d) Between lines 12 and 13.

Short Answer 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"?

2. To whom is the poem dedicated?

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

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

5. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?

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