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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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."

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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"?

4. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?

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

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