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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) Dialogue.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Epistle.
(d) Aside.

2. 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?
(a) Antimetabole.
(b) Cacophony.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "The Good Morrow"?

2. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?

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

4. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?

5. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?

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