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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. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?
(a) Religious faith.
(b) A pledge of honesty.
(c) Soul, or life force.
(d) A sincere question.

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

3. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
(a) Their relationship already feels as if it has gone on forever.
(b) The power of their love can overcome any real-world obstacles.
(c) He wishes that she would give as much to the relationship as he does.
(d) Because they love and give an equal amount, their love is immortal.

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

5. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?
(a) It makes clear that the whole stanza is hypothetical, not a reality.
(b) It confirms that the possibilities outlined in lines 1-4 were actually true.
(c) It introduces the logical consequences of the ideas offered in lines 1-4.
(d) It creates a shift in time, indicating that lines 5-7 take place in the future.

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?

4. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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