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

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

3. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?
(a) The good soul.
(b) The good day after.
(c) The good news.
(d) The good morning.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?

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

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

5. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?

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