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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. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?
(a) Inanimate objects.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Animals.
(d) Babies.

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

3. Lines 12-14, "Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,/ Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,/ Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," contain an example of which technique?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Cacophony.
(c) Antimetabole.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?

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

4. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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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