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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. To whom is the poem dedicated?
(a) A Victorian minister.
(b) Christ.
(c) Matthew Arnold.
(d) The poet's spouse.

2. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?
(a) Verbal irony.
(b) Personification.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Apostrophe.

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

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

5. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?
(a) Awe.
(b) Anticipation.
(c) Ecstasy.
(d) Pride.

Short Answer Questions

1. In lines 5 and 6, what is the bird's motion compared to?

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

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

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