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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) Identical rhyme.
(d) True rhyme.

2. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?
(a) The good news.
(b) The good day after.
(c) The good morning.
(d) The good soul.

3. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?
(a) Appeal to Ethos.
(b) Rhetorical question.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Understatement.

4. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?
(a) Morning.
(b) Noon.
(c) Dusk.
(d) Midnight.

5. 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 19 "equally."
(b) Line 11, "one little room."
(c) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(d) Line 17, "hemispheres."

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?

2. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

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

4. 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?

5. Lines 12-14, "Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,/ Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,/ Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," contain an example of which technique?

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