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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. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?
(a) Critics of his relationship.
(b) The general reader.
(c) His wife.
(d) An unknown beloved.

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

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

4. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?
(a) "Except for our relationship."
(b) "Although pleasure is wonderful."
(c) "On the other hand, the poem I am writing."
(d) "However, when you consider what I am saying."

5. 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 11, "one little room."
(c) Line 17, "hemispheres."
(d) Line 19 "equally."

Short Answer Questions

1. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?

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

3. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

4. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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