1 "The Good Morrow" is best described as Having most of the characteristics of a traditional tercet A somewhat unconventional Petrarchan sonnet A riff on the traditional ballad Not adhering to any particular traditional poetic form 2 The "hemispheres" referred to in the poem represent God and man Love and religion The speaker and his lover Love and reason 3 What makes "The Good-Morrow" an atypical love poem for its era? Its unusual rhyme scheme and three-stanza structure Its many allusions to Christianity The lack of amorous language or description of the lover Donne's choice not to use the sonnet form 4 The mood of "The Good-Morrow" is Confused and inquisitive Impassioned and strident Joyful yet introspective Cold and philosophical 5 What "setting" is hinted at in the last stanza of the poem? The speaker's love's deathbed The first time the lovers met The scene of the lovers' marriage The two lovers waking up next to one another in bed 6 The references to Christian themes in the poem serve to Subtly mock Chistian theology, which Donne saw as oppressive Provide clues to the reader that the "love" in the poem refers to love of God Produce a sense of irony by comparing mortal love to God's love Lend weight to Donne's idea of the transformative powers of love 7 The three lines beginning "Let sea-discoverers..." are best understood as A celebration of the expansion of human knowledge in the form of exploration A criticism of the grand claims often made about the importance of exploration at the time Creating a parallelism between the introspective exploration of the speaker and the exploration of the New World Suggesting that the "discovery" made by the lovers is just as important as, if not more important than, that of the "sea explorers" 8 "The Good-Morrow" is mostly composed of which meter? Stochaic Anapestic tetrameter Alexandrines Iambic pentameter 9 The poem's speaker addressing his absent lover throughout "The Good-Morrow" is an example of Synecdoche Apostrophe Allusion Hyperbole 10 Which of the following is NOT an accurate characterization of the poem's conception of love? It provides the only way to truly know God It changes both the lovers and their relation to the world It possesses a kind of immortality It's a vital means of self-knowledge 11 From the poem, we can infer which of the following about the speaker and his lover? Their love is profound but forbidden The speaker's love isn't quite matched by that of his lover They've fallen in love relatively recently They've loved one another for as long as the speaker can remember 12 Which of the following is NOT one of the comparisons made to the speaker and his lover's state before they met? Childhood Sleep A dream Death 13 Why does Donne refer to the westerly direction as "declining"? Because he believed western civilization was in decline Because he saw the exploration of the New World in the west as a waste of time Because in his time they believed the earth sloped down as you traveled west Because it's the direction in which the sun sets 14 The phrase "Were we not weaned till then?" is an example of Alliteration Hyperbole Personification Understatement 15 Which of the following is the best paraphrase of the line "For love, all love of other sights controls"? Love makes all other desires seem unimportant In true love, it's impossible to love anyone else Finding love is the most important part of life Love makes it impossible to think about anything but your beloved
