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

2. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?
(a) Consonance and inversion.
(b) Assonance and internal rhyme.
(c) Sibilance and euphony.
(d) Alliteration and antithesis.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?

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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