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

2. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?
(a) Appositive.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Pun.
(d) Metonymy.

3. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?
(a) The general reader.
(b) Critics of his relationship.
(c) An unknown beloved.
(d) His wife.

4. 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."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?

2. 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"?

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

4. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?

5. 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?

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