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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

13. 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) Poetry and worlds.
(c) Maps and worlds.
(d) The lovers and worlds.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?

2. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?

3. 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?

4. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?

5. 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"?

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