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

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

3. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?
(a) Daylight.
(b) The air.
(c) The dawn.
(d) Flight.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?

2. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?

3. To whom is the poem dedicated?

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

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

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