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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. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Synechdoche.
(c) Simile.
(d) Allusion.

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 11, "one little room."
(b) Line 17, "hemispheres."
(c) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(d) Line 19 "equally."

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?

2. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?

3. Who is the author of "The Good Morrow"?

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

5. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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