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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) Paradox.
(b) Rhetorical question.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Appeal to Ethos.

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

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

4. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
(a) He wishes that she would give as much to the relationship as he does.
(b) Because they love and give an equal amount, their love is immortal.
(c) The power of their love can overcome any real-world obstacles.
(d) Their relationship already feels as if it has gone on forever.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?

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

3. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

4. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

5. 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?

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