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

2. 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 11, "one little room."
(b) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(c) Line 17, "hemispheres."
(d) Line 19 "equally."

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

4. 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 loneliness and despair.
(c) Jealousy and insecurity about the relationship.
(d) Fear of the beloved's disapproval.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?

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

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

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