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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 11, "one little room."
(b) Line 17, "hemispheres."
(c) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(d) Line 19 "equally."

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

3. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?
(a) The good morning.
(b) The good news.
(c) The good day after.
(d) The good soul.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) 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.

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

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

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. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?

4. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

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?

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