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

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

3. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Epistrophe.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Polysyndeton.
(d) Diacope.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?

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

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

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

5. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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