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

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

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

4. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?
(a) "Rolling."
(b) "Level."
(c) "Him."
(d) "Air."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?

3. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

4. To whom is the poem dedicated?

5. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?

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