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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 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 introduces the logical consequences of the ideas offered in lines 1-4.
(c) It creates a shift in time, indicating that lines 5-7 take place in the future.
(d) It makes clear that the whole stanza is hypothetical, not a reality.

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

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

4. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?
(a) Alliteration and antithesis.
(b) Consonance and inversion.
(c) Sibilance and euphony.
(d) Assonance and internal rhyme.

5. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?
(a) Animals.
(b) Inanimate objects.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Babies.

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?

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

5. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

(see the answer key)

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