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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. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

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) Eye rhyme.
(b) Slant rhyme.
(c) Identical rhyme.
(d) True rhyme.

3. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?
(a) ABABCCC.
(b) AABBCCC.
(c) ABABABA.
(d) ABCABCA.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?

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

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

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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