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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?
(a) His and his lover's hearts.
(b) His desire.
(c) His mind.
(d) His and his lover's souls.

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

4. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Synechdoche.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Simile.

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

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

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

8. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
(a) Line 16, "true plain hearts."
(b) Line 17, "better hemispheres."
(c) Line 13, "worlds on worlds."
(d) Line 18, "sharp north" and "declining west."

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

10. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?
(a) Inanimate objects.
(b) Animals.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Babies.

11. 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) Eye rhyme.
(c) True rhyme.
(d) Identical rhyme.

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?

2. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?

3. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

4. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?

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

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