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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 term describes this poem most accurately?
(a) Aside.
(b) Epistle.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Dialogue.

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

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

4. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
(a) Line 18, "sharp north" and "declining west."
(b) Line 17, "better hemispheres."
(c) Line 13, "worlds on worlds."
(d) Line 16, "true plain hearts."

5. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?
(a) They are enjambed.
(b) They do not rhyme.
(c) They are addressed to a different audience.
(d) They have fewer syllables than the others.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?

2. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?

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

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

5. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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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