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

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

3. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?

4. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the structure of this poem.

8. Explain 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 theme. What are the various claims this poem makes? What patterns of meaning--motifs--do you see in the poem? How do language and detail choices support these motifs? What overall idea sums up all of these smaller claims and patterns of 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 religious overtones. What diction choices have religious connotations? How do the allusion to the Seven Sleepers and the poem's motif of awakenings support the poem's religious aspect? How is the rising sun related to Christian religious symbolism? Be sure to make clear how the religious overtones in the poem support its overall 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 speaker's beliefs about love in "The Good Morrow." How important does love seem to be to the speaker? What are some of the things that the speaker thinks love can accomplish? How does this make the speaker feel? What role do the speaker's beliefs about love play in 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.

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