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

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

3. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?
(a) Sibilance and euphony.
(b) Consonance and inversion.
(c) Alliteration and antithesis.
(d) Assonance and internal rhyme.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?

2. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?

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

4. 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"?

5. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?

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