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

2. 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) Antimetabole.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Cacophony.
(d) Anaphora.

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

4. 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) "Plain" (line 16).
(c) "Declining" (line 18).
(d) "Sharp" (line 18).

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

3. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?

4. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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