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

2. To whom is the poem dedicated?
(a) The poet's spouse.
(b) A Victorian minister.
(c) Matthew Arnold.
(d) Christ.

3. What is the common name of the titular bird?
(a) Kite.
(b) Hawk.
(c) Kestrel.
(d) Osprey.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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