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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
(a) Their relationship already feels as if it has gone on forever.
(b) He wishes that she would give as much to the relationship as he does.
(c) The power of their love can overcome any real-world obstacles.
(d) Because they love and give an equal amount, their love is immortal.

6. 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) "Except for our relationship."
(d) "However, when you consider what I am saying."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?
(a) It confirms that the possibilities outlined in lines 1-4 were actually true.
(b) It makes clear that the whole stanza is hypothetical, not a reality.
(c) It creates a shift in time, indicating that lines 5-7 take place in the future.
(d) It introduces the logical consequences of the ideas offered in lines 1-4.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?

3. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

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

5. 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?

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