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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 horse.
(b) A falconer.
(c) A knight.
(d) A bird.

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

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

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

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 technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?

3. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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