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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) True rhyme.
(b) Slant rhyme.
(c) Eye rhyme.
(d) Identical rhyme.

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

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

4. 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) Assonance and internal rhyme.
(d) Sibilance and euphony.

5. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
(a) Line 17, "better hemispheres."
(b) Line 18, "sharp north" and "declining west."
(c) Line 16, "true plain hearts."
(d) Line 13, "worlds on worlds."

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

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

8. 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) "Except for our relationship."
(d) "However, when you consider what I am saying."

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?
(a) Appositive.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Pun.
(d) Metonymy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?

2. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?

3. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

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

5. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?

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