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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. Who is the author of "The Good Morrow"?
(a) Henry Vaughan.
(b) John Donne.
(c) Andrew Marvell.
(d) George Herbert.

2. 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) Cacophony.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Anaphora.

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) Slant rhyme.
(b) Identical rhyme.
(c) True rhyme.
(d) Eye rhyme.

4. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?
(a) His and his lover's souls.
(b) His desire.
(c) His and his lover's hearts.
(d) His mind.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?

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. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?

4. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

5. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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