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

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?
(a) "Sharp" (line 18).
(b) "Declining" (line 18).
(c) "Plain" (line 16).
(d) "Rest" (line 16).

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

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

5. 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?
(a) Antimetabole.
(b) Cacophony.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

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. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?

4. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?

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

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