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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) Euphony and personification.
(b) Personification and consonance.
(c) Assonance and euphony.
(d) Consonance and assonance.

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

3. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?
(a) B and C.
(b) A and C.
(c) B and D.
(d) A and B.

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

5. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?
(a) A knight.
(b) A falconer.
(c) A horse.
(d) A bird.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?

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

4. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

5. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?

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