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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. Which word in lines 15-18 is meant to contrast the impermanent nature of life outside the lovers' relationship with the eternal nature of their love?
(a) "Plain" (line 16).
(b) "Rest" (line 16).
(c) "Sharp" (line 18).
(d) "Declining" (line 18).

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

3. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?
(a) The good day after.
(b) The good morning.
(c) The good soul.
(d) The good news.

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

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

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. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?

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

4. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?

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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