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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

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

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

4. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?

5. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?

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