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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. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?
(a) Alliteration and internal rhyme.
(b) Onomatopoeia and metaphor.
(c) Metaphor and alliteration.
(d) Internal rhyme and onomatopoeia.

2. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?
(a) Covering.
(b) Like a nun's habit.
(c) Rippling.
(d) Muffling.

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

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 is "sillion" (line 12)?
(a) The sparkling of a diamond.
(b) An uncountable amount.
(c) Sunshine.
(d) A type of soil.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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