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

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

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

4. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Epistrophe.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Diacope.
(d) Polysyndeton.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

5. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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