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

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

3. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?
(a) Religious faith.
(b) Soul, or life force.
(c) A sincere question.
(d) A pledge of honesty.

4. Which word in lines 15-18 is meant to contrast the impermanent nature of life outside the lovers' relationship with the eternal nature of their love?
(a) "Sharp" (line 18).
(b) "Rest" (line 16).
(c) "Plain" (line 16).
(d) "Declining" (line 18).

5. Although the speaker has indicated that each lover is a complete world, where does the diction suggest that each is actually incomplete without the other?
(a) Line 11, "one little room."
(b) Line 19 "equally."
(c) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(d) Line 17, "hemispheres."

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?

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

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

4. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?

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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