View a FREE sample

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 the time of day in this poem's setting?
(a) Noon.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Morning.
(d) Dusk.

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

3. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?
(a) Assonance and internal rhyme.
(b) Consonance and inversion.
(c) Alliteration and antithesis.
(d) Sibilance and euphony.

4. 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 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(b) Line 17, "hemispheres."
(c) Line 11, "one little room."
(d) Line 19 "equally."

5. Lines 12-14, "Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,/ Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,/ Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," contain an example of which technique?
(a) Antimetabole.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Cacophony.

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 different about the poem's first two and last two lines?

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

4. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

5. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 242 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample