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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

9. 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 19 "equally."
(b) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(c) Line 17, "hemispheres."
(d) Line 11, "one little room."

10. 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 the beloved's disapproval.
(c) Fear of loneliness and despair.
(d) Jealousy and insecurity about the relationship.

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

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

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

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

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) "Plain" (line 16).
(d) "Rest" (line 16).

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

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

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

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

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