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

2. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

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

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

5. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 poem's meter and rhyme. Describe these and explain how they impact the poem's pace and tone. Explain how they create emphasis and support the poem's meaning. 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 tension between merging and individuation in "The Good Morrow." In what sense does the poem portray the lovers as one singular thing? What purpose does it serve to portray them as one united and completely merged entity? In what sense does the poem portray them as still two separate entities? What purpose does it serve to portray them as still two distinct people? How does the poem seem to reconcile these opposite ideas? Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem's text. Cite your evidence in MLA format.

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