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

2. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?
(a) Jealousy and insecurity about the relationship.
(b) Fear of the beloved's disapproval.
(c) Fear of loneliness and despair.
(d) An existential fear of purposelessness and loss of meaning.

3. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?
(a) His mind.
(b) His and his lover's souls.
(c) His and his lover's hearts.
(d) His desire.

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

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?
(a) Antimetabole.
(b) Cacophony.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Anaphora.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "The Good Morrow"?

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

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

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

5. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?

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