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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 this poem most accurately?
(a) Aside.
(b) Epistle.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Dialogue.

2. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

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

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