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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 does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?
(a) Covering.
(b) Rippling.
(c) Like a nun's habit.
(d) Muffling.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?

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