The Good-Morrow Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 42 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Good-Morrow Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 42 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

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

3. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?

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

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 2

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the poem's title. What does the title refer to? How does the title support the thematic motif of awakening? What does this have to do with 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 3

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the motif of discovery and exploration in "The Good Morrow." How do language and detail choices create this motif? What different aspects of discovery and exploration are invoked? How does this motif support 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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