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

2. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?
(a) Ecstasy.
(b) Pride.
(c) Awe.
(d) Anticipation.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?

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

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

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