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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. Although the speaker has indicated that each lover is a complete world, where does the diction suggest that each is actually incomplete without the other?
(a) Line 19 "equally."
(b) Line 17, "hemispheres."
(c) Line 11, "one little room."
(d) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."

6. How many lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?
(a) 21.
(b) 28.
(c) 26.
(d) 23.

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

14. 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 are enjambed.
(d) They do not rhyme.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

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

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

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

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