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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 line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?
(a) Maps and worlds.
(b) Poetry and worlds.
(c) Explorers and worlds.
(d) The lovers and worlds.

2. How many lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?
(a) 23.
(b) 28.
(c) 26.
(d) 21.

3. 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 confirms that the possibilities outlined in lines 1-4 were actually true.
(d) It creates a shift in time, indicating that lines 5-7 take place in the future.

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

5. 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 19 "equally."
(c) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(d) Line 11, "one little room."

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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

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

4. 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?

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

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