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

2. 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 are enjambed.
(d) They have fewer syllables than the others.

3. 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."

4. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?
(a) ABCABCA.
(b) ABABCCC.
(c) AABBCCC.
(d) ABABABA.

5. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?
(a) Babies.
(b) Animals.
(c) Inanimate objects.
(d) Farmers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the author of "The Good Morrow"?

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

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

5. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

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