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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Explorers and worlds.
(d) The lovers and worlds.

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

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

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

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

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

7. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?
(a) Soul, or life force.
(b) A pledge of honesty.
(c) A sincere question.
(d) Religious faith.

8. 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 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(d) Line 11, "one little room."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?

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

3. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?

4. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?

5. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

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