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

2. Which term describes this poem most accurately?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Dialogue.
(c) Aside.
(d) Epistle.

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

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

5. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?
(a) "On the other hand, the poem I am writing."
(b) "However, when you consider what I am saying."
(c) "Although pleasure is wonderful."
(d) "Except for our relationship."

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

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

3. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?

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

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"?

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