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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?

3. Who is the author of "The Good Morrow"?

4. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?

5. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?

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