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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 is the literal meaning of the poem's title?
(a) The good news.
(b) The good morning.
(c) The good soul.
(d) The good day after.

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

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

4. 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) Sibilance and euphony.
(d) Alliteration and antithesis.

5. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
(a) Line 13, "worlds on worlds."
(b) Line 16, "true plain hearts."
(c) Line 18, "sharp north" and "declining west."
(d) Line 17, "better hemispheres."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?

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

5. 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"?

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