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

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

3. 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?
(a) Line 17, "hemispheres."
(b) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(c) Line 19 "equally."
(d) Line 11, "one little room."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

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

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

4. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?

5. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?

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