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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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) Anaphora.
(b) Cacophony.
(c) Antimetabole.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

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

13. 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) Maps and worlds.
(c) The lovers and worlds.
(d) Explorers and worlds.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?

5. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

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