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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 the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?
(a) Appositive.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Pun.

2. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?
(a) Appeal to Ethos.
(b) Understatement.
(c) Rhetorical question.
(d) Paradox.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Lines 12-14, "Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,/ Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,/ Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," contain an example of which technique?

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

3. 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"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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