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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 device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Verbal irony.

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

3. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?
(a) The air.
(b) Flight.
(c) The dawn.
(d) Daylight.

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

5. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Hypnotic.
(c) Rapturous.
(d) Sanctified.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?

2. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?

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

4. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?

5. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?

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