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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is the author of "The Good Morrow"?
(a) Henry Vaughan.
(b) George Herbert.
(c) Andrew Marvell.
(d) John Donne.
2. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?
(a) Assonance and internal rhyme.
(b) Alliteration and antithesis.
(c) Sibilance and euphony.
(d) Consonance and inversion.
3. 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) Identical rhyme.
(b) True rhyme.
(c) Slant rhyme.
(d) Eye rhyme.
4. Which term describes this poem most accurately?
(a) Dialogue.
(b) Aside.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Epistle.
5. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?
(a) Appeal to Ethos.
(b) Understatement.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Rhetorical question.
6. How many lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?
(a) 28.
(b) 23.
(c) 21.
(d) 26.
7. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?
(a) His and his lover's hearts.
(b) His and his lover's souls.
(c) His desire.
(d) His mind.
8. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?
(a) The general reader.
(b) An unknown beloved.
(c) His wife.
(d) Critics of his relationship.
9. 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?
(a) Cacophony.
(b) Antimetabole.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Anaphora.
10. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?
(a) Animals.
(b) Babies.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Inanimate objects.
11. What is the dominant meter of this poem?
(a) Iambic pentameter.
(b) Iambic hexameter.
(c) Trochaic hexameter.
(d) Trochaic pentameter.
12. 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 creates a shift in time, indicating that lines 5-7 take place in the future.
(c) It introduces the logical consequences of the ideas offered in lines 1-4.
(d) It makes clear that the whole stanza is hypothetical, not a reality.
13. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Irony.
14. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?
(a) It is stressful.
(b) It is cold.
(c) It is ugly.
(d) It is boring.
15. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?
(a) Dusk.
(b) Morning.
(c) Noon.
(d) Midnight.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?
2. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?
3. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
4. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?
5. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?
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