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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?
(a) "Plain" (line 16).
(b) "Declining" (line 18).
(c) "Rest" (line 16).
(d) "Sharp" (line 18).

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?

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

4. 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?

5. Who is the author of "The Good Morrow"?

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