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

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

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

4. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?
(a) They are addressed to a different audience.
(b) They have fewer syllables than the others.
(c) They do not rhyme.
(d) They are enjambed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?

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

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

4. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?

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

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