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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 a "chevalier" (line 11)?
(a) A falconer.
(b) A bird.
(c) A horse.
(d) A knight.

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

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

4. What is the common name of the titular bird?
(a) Hawk.
(b) Osprey.
(c) Kestrel.
(d) Kite.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who is the author of "The Windhover"?

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