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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. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?
(a) Synechdoche.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Simile.
(d) Oxymoron.

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

3. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Appeal to Ethos.
(c) Rhetorical question.
(d) Understatement.

4. 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 17, "better hemispheres."
(d) Line 18, "sharp north" and "declining west."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

4. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?

5. 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?

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