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

2. 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) Oxymoron.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Euphemism.

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

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

5. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?
(a) Keen and attentive determination.
(b) Clumsy and random movement.
(c) A heavy feeling of apathy.
(d) Slow, boring, repetitive work.

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

3. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?

4. To whom is the poem dedicated?

5. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?

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