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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom is the poem dedicated?

3. What is "sillion" (line 12)?

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

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