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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 dominant meter of this poem?
(a) Trochaic pentameter.
(b) Trochaic hexameter.
(c) Iambic hexameter.
(d) Iambic pentameter.

2. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?
(a) His and his lover's hearts.
(b) His and his lover's souls.
(c) His mind.
(d) His desire.

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

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

5. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?
(a) His wife.
(b) An unknown beloved.
(c) Critics of his relationship.
(d) The general reader.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?

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

4. How many lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?

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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