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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. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?
(a) Appeal to Ethos.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Rhetorical question.

2. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?
(a) It is stressful.
(b) It is cold.
(c) It is boring.
(d) It is ugly.

3. 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?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Cacophony.
(c) Antimetabole.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?

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

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

5. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?

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