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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 term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?
(a) Pun.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Appositive.
(d) Metonymy.

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

3. Which term best describes the rhyming in lines 13 and 14, "Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,/ Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one"?
(a) Identical rhyme.
(b) Eye rhyme.
(c) True rhyme.
(d) Slant rhyme.

4. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Simile.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Allusion.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

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

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

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