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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

5. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?

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