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

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

3. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?
(a) Jealousy and insecurity about the relationship.
(b) An existential fear of purposelessness and loss of meaning.
(c) Fear of loneliness and despair.
(d) Fear of the beloved's disapproval.

4. 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) Farmers.
(d) Babies.

5. How many lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?
(a) 21.
(b) 28.
(c) 23.
(d) 26.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?

3. Who is the author of "The Good Morrow"?

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

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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