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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 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?
(a) "Sharp" (line 18).
(b) "Plain" (line 16).
(c) "Declining" (line 18).
(d) "Rest" (line 16).

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

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

4. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?
(a) It is cold.
(b) It is ugly.
(c) It is stressful.
(d) It is boring.

5. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?
(a) Fear of loneliness and despair.
(b) Fear of the beloved's disapproval.
(c) Jealousy and insecurity about the relationship.
(d) An existential fear of purposelessness and loss of meaning.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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"?

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

5. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?

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