The Good-Morrow Quizzes

The Good-Morrow Quiz

1 "The Good Morrow" is best described as
A riff on the traditional ballad

Having most of the characteristics of a traditional tercet

A somewhat unconventional Petrarchan sonnet

Not adhering to any particular traditional poetic form
2 The "hemispheres" referred to in the poem represent
Love and reason

Love and religion

The speaker and his lover

God and man
3 What makes "The Good-Morrow" an atypical love poem for its era?
The lack of amorous language or description of the lover

Its many allusions to Christianity

Donne's choice not to use the sonnet form

Its unusual rhyme scheme and three-stanza structure
4 The mood of "The Good-Morrow" is
Confused and inquisitive

Cold and philosophical

Joyful yet introspective

Impassioned and strident
5 What "setting" is hinted at in the last stanza of the poem?
The scene of the lovers' marriage

The first time the lovers met

The speaker's love's deathbed

The two lovers waking up next to one another in bed
6 The references to Christian themes in the poem serve to
Provide clues to the reader that the "love" in the poem refers to love of God

Lend weight to Donne's idea of the transformative powers of love

Subtly mock Chistian theology, which Donne saw as oppressive

Produce a sense of irony by comparing mortal love to God's love
7 The three lines beginning "Let sea-discoverers..." are best understood as
Creating a parallelism between the introspective exploration of the speaker and the exploration of the New World

A criticism of the grand claims often made about the importance of exploration at the time

Suggesting that the "discovery" made by the lovers is just as important as, if not more important than, that of the "sea explorers"

A celebration of the expansion of human knowledge in the form of exploration
8 "The Good-Morrow" is mostly composed of which meter?
Stochaic

Alexandrines

Iambic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter
9 The poem's speaker addressing his absent lover throughout "The Good-Morrow" is an example of
Apostrophe

Allusion

Hyperbole

Synecdoche
10 Which of the following is NOT an accurate characterization of the poem's conception of love?
It's a vital means of self-knowledge

It possesses a kind of immortality

It changes both the lovers and their relation to the world

It provides the only way to truly know God
11 From the poem, we can infer which of the following about the speaker and his lover?
The speaker's love isn't quite matched by that of his lover

Their love is profound but forbidden

They've loved one another for as long as the speaker can remember

They've fallen in love relatively recently
12 Which of the following is NOT one of the comparisons made to the speaker and his lover's state before they met?
Death

Sleep

A dream

Childhood
13 Why does Donne refer to the westerly direction as "declining"?
Because it's the direction in which the sun sets

Because he saw the exploration of the New World in the west as a waste of time

Because he believed western civilization was in decline

Because in his time they believed the earth sloped down as you traveled west
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 it impossible to think about anything but your beloved

In true love, it's impossible to love anyone else

Finding love is the most important part of life

Love makes all other desires seem unimportant

Though “The Good-Morrow” directly concerns worldly love, its heavily religious themes suggest that sensual love can help further our understanding of spiritual love, and vice-versa. Donne’s poem in many ways echoes descriptions of religious...

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What role do Christian Thought and Theology play in the poem

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How does John Donne portray the concept of platonic love through pantheistic notion of fusion of lover and beloved?

The main theme of the poem is love. "The Good-Morrow" is both an ode to and an investigation of love—as a relation between two people and as a state of being. Both the speaker and his lover were childish and lived vainly, until love awakened them....

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