View a FREE sample

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) Morning.
(c) Dusk.
(d) Noon.

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

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

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?
(a) Antimetabole.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Cacophony.

5. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?
(a) The good day after.
(b) The good news.
(c) The good soul.
(d) The good morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although the speaker has indicated that each lover is a complete world, where does the diction suggest that each is actually incomplete without the other?

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

3. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

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

5. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 876 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample