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

2. 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"?
(a) True rhyme.
(b) Eye rhyme.
(c) Slant rhyme.
(d) Identical rhyme.

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

4. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?
(a) His and his lover's hearts.
(b) His and his lover's souls.
(c) His desire.
(d) His mind.

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. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

2. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?

3. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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