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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. 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?
(a) Line 19 "equally."
(b) Line 11, "one little room."
(c) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(d) Line 17, "hemispheres."

2. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?
(a) ABCABCA.
(b) ABABCCC.
(c) ABABABA.
(d) AABBCCC.

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

4. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

5. What is the dominant meter of this poem?
(a) Iambic hexameter.
(b) Iambic pentameter.
(c) Trochaic pentameter.
(d) Trochaic hexameter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?

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

3. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?

4. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?

5. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?

(see the answer key)

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