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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 best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?
(a) "Although pleasure is wonderful."
(b) "On the other hand, the poem I am writing."
(c) "However, when you consider what I am saying."
(d) "Except for our relationship."

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

3. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?
(a) It is cold.
(b) It is stressful.
(c) It is ugly.
(d) It is boring.

4. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Polysyndeton.
(b) Epistrophe.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Diacope.

5. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?
(a) Jealousy and insecurity about the relationship.
(b) Fear of the beloved's disapproval.
(c) An existential fear of purposelessness and loss of meaning.
(d) Fear of loneliness and despair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

2. 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?

3. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?

4. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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