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

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

3. 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) "On the other hand, the poem I am writing."
(d) "However, when you consider what I am saying."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?

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

3. 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?

4. How many lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?

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

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