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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Good Morrow," lines 1-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which term best describes the rhyming in lines 13 and 14, "Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,/ Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one"?
(a) Slant rhyme.
(b) Eye rhyme.
(c) True rhyme.
(d) Identical rhyme.

2. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?
(a) Assonance and internal rhyme.
(b) Consonance and inversion.
(c) Sibilance and euphony.
(d) Alliteration and antithesis.

3. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?
(a) His mind.
(b) His and his lover's souls.
(c) His desire.
(d) His and his lover's hearts.

4. Although the speaker has indicated that each lover is a complete world, where does the diction suggest that each is actually incomplete without the other?
(a) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(b) Line 17, "hemispheres."
(c) Line 11, "one little room."
(d) Line 19 "equally."

5. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

2. Which word in lines 15-18 is meant to contrast the impermanent nature of life outside the lovers' relationship with the eternal nature of their love?

3. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?

4. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?

5. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?

(see the answer key)

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