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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 imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?
(a) It is cold.
(b) It is stressful.
(c) It is ugly.
(d) It is boring.

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

3. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Polysyndeton.
(b) Diacope.
(c) Epistrophe.
(d) Parallelism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

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

4. 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?

5. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?

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