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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. 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"?
(a) Eye rhyme.
(b) Slant rhyme.
(c) Identical rhyme.
(d) True rhyme.

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

3. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
(a) The power of their love can overcome any real-world obstacles.
(b) Their relationship already feels as if it has gone on forever.
(c) He wishes that she would give as much to the relationship as he does.
(d) Because they love and give an equal amount, their love is immortal.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?

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

4. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?

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

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