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

2. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
(a) Their relationship already feels as if it has gone on forever.
(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) The power of their love can overcome any real-world obstacles.

3. 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"?
(a) Eye rhyme.
(b) Identical rhyme.
(c) True rhyme.
(d) Slant rhyme.

4. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?
(a) It is ugly.
(b) It is cold.
(c) It is stressful.
(d) It is boring.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?

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?

5. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?

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