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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. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
(a) Line 17, "better hemispheres."
(b) Line 18, "sharp north" and "declining west."
(c) Line 16, "true plain hearts."
(d) Line 13, "worlds on worlds."

2. 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 17, "hemispheres."
(c) Line 19 "equally."
(d) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."

3. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?
(a) They are enjambed.
(b) They have fewer syllables than the others.
(c) They do not rhyme.
(d) They are addressed to a different audience.

4. 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 the beloved's disapproval.
(d) Fear of loneliness and despair.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is 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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