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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) "Although pleasure is wonderful."
(b) "On the other hand, the poem I am writing."
(c) "Except for our relationship."
(d) "However, when you consider what I am saying."

2. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Synesthesia.
(b) Irony.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Antithesis.

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

4. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Synechdoche.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Simile.

5. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?
(a) Morning.
(b) Noon.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Dusk.

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. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?

4. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?

5. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?

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