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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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?
(a) Line 19 "equally."
(b) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(c) Line 17, "hemispheres."
(d) Line 11, "one little room."

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

7. 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) Assonance and internal rhyme.
(d) Consonance and inversion.

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

9. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Simile.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Synechdoche.

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

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

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

13. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?
(a) It introduces the logical consequences of the ideas offered in lines 1-4.
(b) It confirms that the possibilities outlined in lines 1-4 were actually true.
(c) It makes clear that the whole stanza is hypothetical, not a reality.
(d) It creates a shift in time, indicating that lines 5-7 take place in the future.

14. 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) "Rest" (line 16).
(c) "Sharp" (line 18).
(d) "Plain" (line 16).

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

2. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?

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"?

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

5. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

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