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

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

3. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Parallelism.
(b) Diacope.
(c) Polysyndeton.
(d) Epistrophe.

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

5. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Irony.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?

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

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"?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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