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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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) Eye rhyme.
(c) Slant rhyme.
(d) Identical rhyme.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

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

4. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

5. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?

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