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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?
(a) "However, when you consider what I am saying."
(b) "Although pleasure is wonderful."
(c) "On the other hand, the poem I am writing."
(d) "Except for our relationship."

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

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

6. 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 17, "hemispheres."
(b) Line 11, "one little room."
(c) Line 19 "equally."
(d) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) The power of their love can overcome any real-world obstacles.
(c) Because they love and give an equal amount, their love is immortal.
(d) Their relationship already feels as if it has gone on forever.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?

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

4. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?

5. 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?

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