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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?
(a) Dusk.
(b) Morning.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Noon.

2. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?
(a) Synechdoche.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Simile.

3. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Synesthesia.
(d) Irony.

4. Which term describes this poem most accurately?
(a) Aside.
(b) Epistle.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Apostrophe.

5. 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) He wishes that she would give as much to the relationship as he does.
(c) Their relationship already feels as if it has gone on forever.
(d) Because they love and give an equal amount, their love is immortal.

6. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?
(a) Jealousy and insecurity about the relationship.
(b) Fear of loneliness and despair.
(c) An existential fear of purposelessness and loss of meaning.
(d) Fear of the beloved's disapproval.

7. 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) Poetry and worlds.
(d) The lovers and worlds.

8. How many lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?
(a) 26.
(b) 23.
(c) 28.
(d) 21.

9. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?
(a) ABCABCA.
(b) AABBCCC.
(c) ABABCCC.
(d) ABABABA.

10. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
(a) Line 13, "worlds on worlds."
(b) Line 16, "true plain hearts."
(c) Line 18, "sharp north" and "declining west."
(d) Line 17, "better hemispheres."

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

12. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?
(a) "However, when you consider what I am saying."
(b) "On the other hand, the poem I am writing."
(c) "Although pleasure is wonderful."
(d) "Except for our relationship."

13. 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"?
(a) Identical rhyme.
(b) Slant rhyme.
(c) Eye rhyme.
(d) True rhyme.

14. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?
(a) The good soul.
(b) The good day after.
(c) The good news.
(d) The good morning.

15. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Polysyndeton.
(b) Diacope.
(c) Epistrophe.
(d) Parallelism.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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?

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