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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?
(a) It confirms that the possibilities outlined in lines 1-4 were actually true.
(b) It makes clear that the whole stanza is hypothetical, not a reality.
(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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?

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

3. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?

4. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?

5. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

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