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

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

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

4. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Atanaclasis.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Asyndeton.

5. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?
(a) Kingdom.
(b) Morning.
(c) Daylight.
(d) Minion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?

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

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

4. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "A" lines?

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

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