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

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

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

4. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?
(a) It confirms that the possibilities outlined in lines 1-4 were actually true.
(b) It creates a shift in time, indicating that lines 5-7 take place in the future.
(c) It introduces the logical consequences of the ideas offered in lines 1-4.
(d) It makes clear that the whole stanza is hypothetical, not a reality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

2. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?

3. How many lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?

4. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

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

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