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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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) Slant rhyme.
(d) True rhyme.

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

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

13. 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) Anaphora.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Cacophony.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

2. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?

3. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?

4. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?

5. 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?

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