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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 different about the poem's first two and last two lines?
(a) They are enjambed.
(b) They do not rhyme.
(c) They are addressed to a different audience.
(d) They have fewer syllables than the others.

2. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Irony.
(d) Synesthesia.

3. Which term describes this poem most accurately?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Dialogue.
(c) Aside.
(d) Epistle.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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