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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 "B" lines"?
(a) Masculine.
(b) Eye.
(c) Slant.
(d) Feminine.

2. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) To have brushed against its force and been knocked back.
(b) To have abruptly and rudely responded to it.
(c) To have stood up to and turned away its advance.
(d) To have used rapid movements to shine or polish it.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?

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