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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 is the dominant meter of this poem?
(a) Trochaic hexameter.
(b) Iambic hexameter.
(c) Iambic pentameter.
(d) Trochaic pentameter.

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

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

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

5. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?
(a) They have fewer syllables than the others.
(b) They are enjambed.
(c) They are addressed to a different audience.
(d) They do not rhyme.

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

3. How many lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?

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

5. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?

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