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

2. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?
(a) Consonance and inversion.
(b) Alliteration and antithesis.
(c) Sibilance and euphony.
(d) Assonance and internal rhyme.

3. How many lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?
(a) 28.
(b) 21.
(c) 26.
(d) 23.

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

5. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?
(a) The lovers and worlds.
(b) Explorers and worlds.
(c) Maps and worlds.
(d) Poetry and worlds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?

2. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

3. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?

4. 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?

5. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

5. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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