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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom is the poem dedicated?

3. What is the common name of the titular bird?

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

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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