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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. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?
(a) Animals.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Inanimate objects.
(d) Babies.

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

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

4. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?
(a) Simile.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Allusion.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?

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"?

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

5. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

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