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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "The Good Morrow"?

2. 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?

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

4. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?

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

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