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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Anaphora.
(c) Antimetabole.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

4. 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) Maps and worlds.
(d) Explorers and worlds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?
(a) "Although pleasure is wonderful."
(b) "Except for our relationship."
(c) "On the other hand, the poem I am writing."
(d) "However, when you consider what I am saying."

14. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?
(a) Dusk.
(b) Noon.
(c) Morning.
(d) Midnight.

15. 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) Because they love and give an equal amount, their love is immortal.
(c) He wishes that she would give as much to the relationship as he does.
(d) The power of their love can overcome any real-world obstacles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?

2. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?

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

4. 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?

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

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