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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. Who is the author of "The Good Morrow"?
(a) Andrew Marvell.
(b) Henry Vaughan.
(c) George Herbert.
(d) John Donne.

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

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

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

5. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?
(a) ABCABCA.
(b) ABABCCC.
(c) ABABABA.
(d) AABBCCC.

Short Answer 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?

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

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

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

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?

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