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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) Midnight.
(c) Noon.
(d) Morning.

2. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?
(a) The lovers and worlds.
(b) Explorers and worlds.
(c) Poetry and worlds.
(d) Maps and worlds.

3. Which word in lines 15-18 is meant to contrast the impermanent nature of life outside the lovers' relationship with the eternal nature of their love?
(a) "Sharp" (line 18).
(b) "Rest" (line 16).
(c) "Declining" (line 18).
(d) "Plain" (line 16).

4. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?
(a) His desire.
(b) His and his lover's hearts.
(c) His and his lover's souls.
(d) His mind.

5. What is the dominant meter of this poem?
(a) Iambic hexameter.
(b) Trochaic pentameter.
(c) Trochaic hexameter.
(d) Iambic pentameter.

6. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?
(a) They are addressed to a different audience.
(b) They do not rhyme.
(c) They are enjambed.
(d) They have fewer syllables than the others.

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

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

9. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?
(a) Understatement.
(b) Appeal to Ethos.
(c) Rhetorical question.
(d) Paradox.

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

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

12. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?
(a) Babies.
(b) Inanimate objects.
(c) Animals.
(d) Farmers.

13. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?
(a) Appositive.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Pun.
(d) Hyperbole.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?

3. Lines 12-14, "Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,/ Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,/ Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," contain an example of which technique?

4. 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"?

5. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

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