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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. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?
(a) A and C.
(b) A and B.
(c) B and C.
(d) B and D.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?

2. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?

3. What is the common name of the titular bird?

4. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?

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

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