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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. Although the speaker has indicated that each lover is a complete world, where does the diction suggest that each is actually incomplete without the other?
(a) Line 19 "equally."
(b) Line 17, "hemispheres."
(c) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(d) Line 11, "one little room."

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

3. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Dusk.
(c) Noon.
(d) Morning.

4. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?
(a) Understatement.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Appeal to Ethos.
(d) Rhetorical question.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?

5. 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"?

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