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

2. 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 11, "one little room."
(c) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(d) Line 19 "equally."

3. 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) Anaphora.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Cacophony.

4. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Animals.
(c) Inanimate objects.
(d) Babies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the structure of this poem.

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