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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) Oxymoron.
(b) Simile.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Allusion.

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

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

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

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

6. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?
(a) It introduces the logical consequences of the ideas offered in lines 1-4.
(b) It creates a shift in time, indicating that lines 5-7 take place in the future.
(c) It confirms that the possibilities outlined in lines 1-4 were actually true.
(d) It makes clear that the whole stanza is hypothetical, not a reality.

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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) Antimetabole.
(c) Cacophony.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

2. 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?

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. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?

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

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