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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 8 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

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

5. How many lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What element of hyperbole is contained in the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers?

2. Explain how the conceit of exploration is incorporated into the speaker's argument in stanza two.

3. Explain the poem's final conceit about the hemispheres of a planet.

4. Explain the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers.

5. Where is this poem set, and what is happening there?

6. Describe the structure of this poem.

7. Explain how the conceit of dreaming unifies the first stanza.

8. Explain the rhetorical purpose of the image that begins the third stanza.

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