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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) Epistrophe.
(c) Polysyndeton.
(d) Diacope.

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

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

4. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?
(a) Assonance and internal rhyme.
(b) Consonance and inversion.
(c) Sibilance and euphony.
(d) Alliteration and antithesis.

5. What is the dominant meter of this poem?
(a) Iambic pentameter.
(b) Trochaic pentameter.
(c) Iambic hexameter.
(d) Trochaic hexameter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?

2. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

3. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?

4. 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"?

5. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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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