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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who is the author of "The Good Morrow"?
(a) Andrew Marvell.
(b) Henry Vaughan.
(c) George Herbert.
(d) John Donne.

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

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

8. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
(a) Because they love and give an equal amount, their love is immortal.
(b) Their relationship already feels as if it has gone on forever.
(c) The power of their love can overcome any real-world obstacles.
(d) He wishes that she would give as much to the relationship as he does.

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

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

11. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?
(a) ABCABCA.
(b) AABBCCC.
(c) ABABABA.
(d) ABABCCC.

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

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

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

15. 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?
(a) "Declining" (line 18).
(b) "Sharp" (line 18).
(c) "Rest" (line 16).
(d) "Plain" (line 16).

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?

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

4. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?

5. 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?

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