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

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

3. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
(a) The power of their love can overcome any real-world obstacles.
(b) He wishes that she would give as much to the relationship as he does.
(c) Their relationship already feels as if it has gone on forever.
(d) Because they love and give an equal amount, their love is immortal.

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

5. 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) Sibilance and euphony.
(d) Alliteration and antithesis.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

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

4. 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?

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

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