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

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

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

4. 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 19 "equally."
(b) Line 17, "hemispheres."
(c) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(d) Line 11, "one little room."

5. 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"?
(a) Slant rhyme.
(b) True rhyme.
(c) Identical rhyme.
(d) Eye rhyme.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

5. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?

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