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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 best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?
(a) "Except for our relationship."
(b) "On the other hand, the poem I am writing."
(c) "However, when you consider what I am saying."
(d) "Although pleasure is wonderful."

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?

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

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

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