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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. To whom is the poem dedicated?
(a) The poet's spouse.
(b) Matthew Arnold.
(c) A Victorian minister.
(d) Christ.

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

3. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Verbal irony.
(c) Personification.
(d) Apostrophe.

4. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?
(a) The air.
(b) Christ.
(c) The windhover.
(d) The speaker.

5. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?
(a) Sanctified.
(b) Rapturous.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Hypnotic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "B" lines"?

3. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?

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"?

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

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