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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 8 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the author of "The Good Morrow"?

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

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

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

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 final conceit about the hemispheres of a planet.

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the poem's tone. How would you describe the tone? Does it shift? What techniques create it? How does it contribute to the poem's overall meaning? Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem's text. Cite your evidence in MLA format.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the meaning of lines 19-21. What claim is the speaker making here? How do these lines reflect on the quatrain they follow? What purpose does this claim serve in the poem's overall argument? Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem's text. Cite your evidence in MLA format.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about "The Good Morrow" as an example of an aubade. What makes the poem an aubade? Why does it matter that this poem is an aubade--what additional understandings about theme arise from the poem's genre? Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem's text. Cite your evidence in MLA format.

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