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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the dominant meter of this poem?
(a) Trochaic pentameter.
(b) Iambic pentameter.
(c) Iambic hexameter.
(d) Trochaic hexameter.

2. Which term describes this poem most accurately?
(a) Epistle.
(b) Aside.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Dialogue.

3. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?
(a) It is boring.
(b) It is cold.
(c) It is stressful.
(d) It is ugly.

4. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Appeal to Ethos.
(c) Rhetorical question.
(d) Understatement.

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

6. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?
(a) Jealousy and insecurity about the relationship.
(b) Fear of loneliness and despair.
(c) Fear of the beloved's disapproval.
(d) An existential fear of purposelessness and loss of meaning.

7. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?
(a) His and his lover's souls.
(b) His mind.
(c) His desire.
(d) His and his lover's hearts.

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

9. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?
(a) The lovers and worlds.
(b) Poetry and worlds.
(c) Explorers and worlds.
(d) Maps and worlds.

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

11. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
(a) Their relationship already feels as if it has gone on forever.
(b) The power of their love can overcome any real-world obstacles.
(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.

12. How many lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?
(a) 28.
(b) 26.
(c) 23.
(d) 21.

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

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

15. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?

3. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

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

5. 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?

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