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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. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

4. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?

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

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