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

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

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

4. 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?
(a) "Declining" (line 18).
(b) "Sharp" (line 18).
(c) "Plain" (line 16).
(d) "Rest" (line 16).

5. Which term describes this poem most accurately?
(a) Aside.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Epistle.
(d) Dialogue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?

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

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

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

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

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