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

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

3. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?
(a) Noon.
(b) Morning.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Dusk.

4. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?
(a) Appositive.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Pun.
(d) Metonymy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which term best describes the rhyming in lines 13 and 14, "Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,/ Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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