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

2. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Diacope.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Epistrophe.
(d) Polysyndeton.

3. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?
(a) ABABCCC.
(b) ABCABCA.
(c) ABABABA.
(d) AABBCCC.

4. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?
(a) Appeal to Ethos.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Rhetorical question.
(d) Understatement.

5. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
(a) Their relationship already feels as if it has gone on forever.
(b) Because they love and give an equal amount, their love is immortal.
(c) He wishes that she would give as much to the relationship as he does.
(d) The power of their love can overcome any real-world obstacles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?

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

3. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?

4. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

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

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