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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 do not rhyme.
(b) They have fewer syllables than the others.
(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 19 "equally."
(b) Line 11, "one little room."
(c) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(d) Line 17, "hemispheres."

3. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
(a) Line 13, "worlds on worlds."
(b) Line 18, "sharp north" and "declining west."
(c) Line 17, "better hemispheres."
(d) Line 16, "true plain hearts."

4. 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"?
(a) Slant rhyme.
(b) Eye rhyme.
(c) True rhyme.
(d) Identical rhyme.

5. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Appositive.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Pun.

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 is the literal meaning of the poem's title?

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

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

5. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

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