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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?

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

4. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

5. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?

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