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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 best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?
(a) "However, when you consider what I am saying."
(b) "Except for our relationship."
(c) "On the other hand, the poem I am writing."
(d) "Although pleasure is wonderful."

2. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
(a) Line 18, "sharp north" and "declining west."
(b) Line 13, "worlds on worlds."
(c) Line 17, "better hemispheres."
(d) Line 16, "true plain hearts."

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. Who is the author of "The Good Morrow"?

4. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

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

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