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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. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?
(a) Explorers and worlds.
(b) The lovers and worlds.
(c) Maps and worlds.
(d) Poetry and worlds.

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

3. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?
(a) Simile.
(b) Synechdoche.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Allusion.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?

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

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

4. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?

5. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

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