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

2. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

3. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?

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

5. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 speaker's beliefs about love in "The Good Morrow." How important does love seem to be to the speaker? What are some of the things that the speaker thinks love can accomplish? How does this make the speaker feel? What role do the speaker's beliefs about love play in 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 2

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the poem's religious overtones. What diction choices have religious connotations? How do the allusion to the Seven Sleepers and the poem's motif of awakenings support the poem's religious aspect? How is the rising sun related to Christian religious symbolism? Be sure to make clear how the religious overtones in the poem support its 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 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.

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