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

2. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?
(a) A and C.
(b) A and B.
(c) B and D.
(d) B and C.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?

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