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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. 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.

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

3. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?
(a) Atanaclasis.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Asyndeton.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is "sillion" (line 12)?

4. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?

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

(see the answer key)

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