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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) Metaphor and alliteration.
(b) Internal rhyme and onomatopoeia.
(c) Alliteration and internal rhyme.
(d) Onomatopoeia and metaphor.

2. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?
(a) Between lines 4 and 5.
(b) Between lines 8 and 9.
(c) Between lines 12 and 13.
(d) Between lines 11 and 12.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?

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