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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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) Slant rhyme.
(c) Eye rhyme.
(d) True rhyme.

9. 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) Anaphora.
(d) Cacophony.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

3. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?

4. 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?

5. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?

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