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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) Consonance and inversion.
(b) Sibilance and euphony.
(c) Assonance and internal rhyme.
(d) Alliteration and antithesis.

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

3. 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."

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

5. 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) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Anaphora.

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

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

8. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
(a) Line 18, "sharp north" and "declining west."
(b) Line 16, "true plain hearts."
(c) Line 13, "worlds on worlds."
(d) Line 17, "better hemispheres."

9. 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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

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

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

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