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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 the time of day in this poem's setting?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Noon.
(c) Dusk.
(d) Morning.
2. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?
(a) The general reader.
(b) His wife.
(c) An unknown beloved.
(d) Critics of his relationship.
3. 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?
(a) "Declining" (line 18).
(b) "Rest" (line 16).
(c) "Plain" (line 16).
(d) "Sharp" (line 18).
4. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
(a) Line 13, "worlds on worlds."
(b) Line 16, "true plain hearts."
(c) Line 18, "sharp north" and "declining west."
(d) Line 17, "better hemispheres."
5. Who is the author of "The Good Morrow"?
(a) John Donne.
(b) Henry Vaughan.
(c) Andrew Marvell.
(d) George Herbert.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the dominant meter of this poem?
2. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?
3. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?
4. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?
5. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain how the conceit of dreaming unifies the first stanza.
2. Describe the structure of this poem.
3. Explain the poem's final conceit about the hemispheres of a planet.
4. What element of hyperbole is contained in the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers?
5. Explain the rhetorical purpose of the image that begins the third stanza.
6. Where is this poem set, and what is happening there?
7. Explain how the conceit of exploration is incorporated into the speaker's argument in stanza two.
8. Explain the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers.
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