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

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

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

4. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?
(a) They have fewer syllables than the others.
(b) They do not rhyme.
(c) They are addressed to a different audience.
(d) They are enjambed.

5. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?
(a) It confirms that the possibilities outlined in lines 1-4 were actually true.
(b) It creates a shift in time, indicating that lines 5-7 take place in the future.
(c) It introduces the logical consequences of the ideas offered in lines 1-4.
(d) It makes clear that the whole stanza is hypothetical, not a reality.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?

3. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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