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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 lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?
(a) 23.
(b) 26.
(c) 21.
(d) 28.

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 19 "equally."
(d) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."

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

4. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?
(a) Dusk.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Noon.
(d) Morning.

5. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?
(a) "Except for our relationship."
(b) "Although pleasure is wonderful."
(c) "However, when you consider what I am saying."
(d) "On the other hand, the poem I am writing."

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?

2. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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