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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. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?
(a) Poetry and worlds.
(b) Explorers and worlds.
(c) Maps and worlds.
(d) The lovers and worlds.

2. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?
(a) ABABCCC.
(b) AABBCCC.
(c) ABABABA.
(d) ABCABCA.

3. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Synesthesia.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Irony.
(d) Hyperbole.

4. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?
(a) The general reader.
(b) Critics of his relationship.
(c) An unknown beloved.
(d) His wife.

5. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
(a) Line 16, "true plain hearts."
(b) Line 18, "sharp north" and "declining west."
(c) Line 17, "better hemispheres."
(d) Line 13, "worlds on worlds."

Short Answer Questions

1. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?

2. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?

3. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

4. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?

5. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?

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