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

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

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

4. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "A" lines?
(a) Eye.
(b) Feminine.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Slant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "B" lines"?

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

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

4. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?

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

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