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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. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?
(a) Morning.
(b) Kingdom.
(c) Minion.
(d) Daylight.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

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

3. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?

4. In lines 5 and 6, what is the bird's motion compared to?

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

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