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

2. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

3. 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 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(b) Line 17, "hemispheres."
(c) Line 11, "one little room."
(d) Line 19 "equally."

4. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?
(a) It is boring.
(b) It is stressful.
(c) It is cold.
(d) It is ugly.

5. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?
(a) The good soul.
(b) The good day after.
(c) The good morning.
(d) The good news.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?

2. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

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

4. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?

5. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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