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

2. 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 17, "hemispheres."
(b) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(c) Line 19 "equally."
(d) Line 11, "one little room."

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

4. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?
(a) They do not rhyme.
(b) They have fewer syllables than the others.
(c) They are addressed to a different audience.
(d) They are enjambed.

5. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
(a) Line 18, "sharp north" and "declining west."
(b) Line 13, "worlds on worlds."
(c) Line 16, "true plain hearts."
(d) Line 17, "better hemispheres."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?

3. Which word in lines 15-18 is meant to contrast the impermanent nature of life outside the lovers' relationship with the eternal nature of their love?

4. Which term best describes the rhyming in lines 13 and 14, "Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,/ Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one"?

5. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?

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