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

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

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

4. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Irony.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Synesthesia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?

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?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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

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