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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 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) Metaphor.
(d) Imagery.

2. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?
(a) Ecstasy.
(b) Anticipation.
(c) Pride.
(d) Awe.

3. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?
(a) "Him."
(b) "Air."
(c) "Rolling."
(d) "Level."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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