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

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

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"?
(a) Eye rhyme.
(b) True rhyme.
(c) Slant rhyme.
(d) Identical rhyme.

4. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?

3. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?

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

5. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?

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