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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?
(a) Maps and worlds.
(b) Poetry and worlds.
(c) Explorers and worlds.
(d) The lovers and worlds.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

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