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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. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?
(a) Critics of his relationship.
(b) His wife.
(c) An unknown beloved.
(d) The general reader.

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

3. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?
(a) Explorers and worlds.
(b) Maps and worlds.
(c) The lovers and worlds.
(d) Poetry and worlds.

4. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
(a) The power of their love can overcome any real-world obstacles.
(b) Their relationship already feels as if it has gone on forever.
(c) He wishes that she would give as much to the relationship as he does.
(d) Because they love and give an equal amount, their love is immortal.

5. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?
(a) Pun.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Appositive.

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

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

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

5. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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