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

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

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) Identical rhyme.
(b) True rhyme.
(c) Eye rhyme.
(d) Slant rhyme.

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

5. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?
(a) "Except for our relationship."
(b) "However, when you consider what I am saying."
(c) "On the other hand, the poem I am writing."
(d) "Although pleasure is wonderful."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?

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