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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 would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) To have stood up to and turned away its advance.
(b) To have used rapid movements to shine or polish it.
(c) To have brushed against its force and been knocked back.
(d) To have abruptly and rudely responded to it.

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

3. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?
(a) "Level."
(b) "Air."
(c) "Rolling."
(d) "Him."

4. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) Consonance and assonance.
(b) Assonance and euphony.
(c) Personification and consonance.
(d) Euphony and personification.

5. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?
(a) The speaker.
(b) Christ.
(c) The windhover.
(d) The air.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?

2. Who is the author of "The Windhover"?

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

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

5. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?

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