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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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) The lovers and worlds.
(c) Poetry and worlds.
(d) Explorers and worlds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

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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