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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. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?
(a) An unknown beloved.
(b) The general reader.
(c) His wife.
(d) Critics of his relationship.

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

3. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?
(a) Inanimate objects.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Animals.
(d) Babies.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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