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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 lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?
(a) Inanimate objects.
(b) Babies.
(c) Animals.
(d) Farmers.

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

3. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?
(a) His and his lover's souls.
(b) His desire.
(c) His and his lover's hearts.
(d) His mind.

4. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?
(a) The good news.
(b) The good morning.
(c) The good soul.
(d) The good day after.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?

2. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?

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

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

5. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?

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