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

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

3. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?
(a) A pledge of honesty.
(b) Religious faith.
(c) A sincere question.
(d) Soul, or life force.

4. 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.

5. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?
(a) It makes clear that the whole stanza is hypothetical, not a reality.
(b) It confirms that the possibilities outlined in lines 1-4 were actually true.
(c) It introduces the logical consequences of the ideas offered in lines 1-4.
(d) It creates a shift in time, indicating that lines 5-7 take place in the future.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

2. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?

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

4. 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?

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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