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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 8 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

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?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Antimetabole.
(d) Cacophony.

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

5. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?
(a) It introduces the logical consequences of the ideas offered in lines 1-4.
(b) It confirms that the possibilities outlined in lines 1-4 were actually true.
(c) It makes clear that the whole stanza is hypothetical, not a reality.
(d) It creates a shift in time, indicating that lines 5-7 take place in the future.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?

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

4. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?

5. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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