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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. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

2. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?

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

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

5. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the structure of this poem.

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 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 2

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 3

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the motif of vision in "The Good Morrow." How do language and detail choices create this motif? What different aspects of vision are invoked? How does this motif support 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.

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