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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) Eye rhyme.
(b) Identical rhyme.
(c) True rhyme.
(d) Slant rhyme.

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

6. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

7. 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) Assonance and internal rhyme.
(d) Consonance and inversion.

8. 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."

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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) Their relationship already feels as if it has gone on forever.
(c) Because they love and give an equal amount, their love is immortal.
(d) He wishes that she would give as much to the relationship as he does.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?

3. 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?

4. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?

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

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