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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which term describes this poem most accurately?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Aside.
(c) Epistle.
(d) Dialogue.

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

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

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

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

6. 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) "However, when you consider what I am saying."
(c) "Although pleasure is wonderful."
(d) "Except for our relationship."

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

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

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

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

11. 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) Because they love and give an equal amount, their love is immortal.
(c) The power of their love can overcome any real-world obstacles.
(d) Their relationship already feels as if it has gone on forever.

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

13. 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."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?

2. 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?

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

4. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?

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

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