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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. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?
(a) Alliteration and antithesis.
(b) Consonance and inversion.
(c) Assonance and internal rhyme.
(d) Sibilance and euphony.

2. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
(a) Their relationship already feels as if it has gone on forever.
(b) He wishes that she would give as much to the relationship as he does.
(c) Because they love and give an equal amount, their love is immortal.
(d) The power of their love can overcome any real-world obstacles.

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"?
(a) Identical rhyme.
(b) Slant rhyme.
(c) True rhyme.
(d) Eye rhyme.

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

5. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?
(a) Rhetorical question.
(b) Appeal to Ethos.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Paradox.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?

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

4. 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?

5. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?

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. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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

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