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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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 the beloved's disapproval.
(d) Fear of loneliness and despair.

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

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

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

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

8. 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) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Antimetabole.

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

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

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

12. 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 17, "hemispheres."
(b) Line 19 "equally."
(c) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(d) Line 11, "one little room."

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?

3. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

4. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?

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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