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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 technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Metaphor.

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

3. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?
(a) The air.
(b) Flight.
(c) The dawn.
(d) Daylight.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?

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

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

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

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