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

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

2. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?
(a) Assonance and internal rhyme.
(b) Alliteration and antithesis.
(c) Consonance and inversion.
(d) Sibilance and euphony.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?
(a) Poetry and worlds.
(b) Explorers and worlds.
(c) The lovers and worlds.
(d) Maps and worlds.

12. 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) "Plain" (line 16).
(d) "Declining" (line 18).

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

2. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?

3. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?

4. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?

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

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