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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. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?
(a) An existential fear of purposelessness and loss of meaning.
(b) Fear of the beloved's disapproval.
(c) Jealousy and insecurity about the relationship.
(d) Fear of loneliness and despair.

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

3. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Inanimate objects.
(c) Babies.
(d) Animals.

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?
(a) "Plain" (line 16).
(b) "Sharp" (line 18).
(c) "Declining" (line 18).
(d) "Rest" (line 16).

5. 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) True rhyme.
(c) Identical rhyme.
(d) Eye rhyme.

Short Answer Questions

1. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?

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

3. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?

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

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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