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

2. 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."

3. Which term describes this poem most accurately?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Aside.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Epistle.

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

5. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?
(a) Simile.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Allusion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?

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

4. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?

5. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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