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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. How many lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?

2. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

3. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?

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

5. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?

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 the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers.

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

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

6. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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 Good Morrow" as an example of an aubade. What makes the poem an aubade? Why does it matter that this poem is an aubade--what additional understandings about theme arise from the poem's genre? 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 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.

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