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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. What is the dominant meter of this poem?
(a) Trochaic pentameter.
(b) Trochaic hexameter.
(c) Iambic hexameter.
(d) Iambic pentameter.

2. Which word in lines 15-18 is meant to contrast the impermanent nature of life outside the lovers' relationship with the eternal nature of their love?
(a) "Rest" (line 16).
(b) "Plain" (line 16).
(c) "Sharp" (line 18).
(d) "Declining" (line 18).

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

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

5. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?
(a) ABABCCC.
(b) ABABABA.
(c) ABCABCA.
(d) AABBCCC.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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