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

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

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

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

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

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

3. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

4. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the structure of this poem.

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