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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

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

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

4. 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"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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