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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?

2. 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"?

3. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

4. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?

5. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?

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