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

2. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Simile.

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

4. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?
(a) It introduces the logical consequences of the ideas offered in lines 1-4.
(b) It confirms that the possibilities outlined in lines 1-4 were actually true.
(c) It creates a shift in time, indicating that lines 5-7 take place in the future.
(d) It makes clear that the whole stanza is hypothetical, not a reality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?

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

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

4. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?

5. Lines 12-14, "Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,/ Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,/ Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," contain an example of which technique?

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