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

2. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?
(a) They have fewer syllables than the others.
(b) They are addressed to a different audience.
(c) They are enjambed.
(d) They do not rhyme.

3. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Noon.
(c) Dusk.
(d) Morning.

4. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Irony.

5. 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) Explorers and worlds.
(d) Maps and worlds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

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

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

4. 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"?

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

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