A valediction Forbidding Mourning ap practice Multiple Choice

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

AP Practice Multiple Choice

1. 
   The speaker of this poem is
   
   1. 
      A man who wants to get away from his lover
      
   2. 
      Friend of a dying man
      
   3. 
      Churchman
      
   4. 
      Man who wants to travel
      
   5. 
      Lover who must leave on a journey
      

2. 
   Which of the following best describes the speakers point of view in stanzas 3,4, and 5?
   
   1. 
      True lovers can separate without causing major disturbances
      
   2. 
      Earthquakes cause more problems than the movement of heavenly bodies
      
   3. 
      People who depend on physical love are similar to the stars and planets
      
   4. 
      A person should not miss his lovers lips and eyes
      
   5. 
      Lovers have better senses and minds than other people
      

3. 
   All of the following are figurative images in the poem EXCEPT
   
   1. 
      Virtuous men
      
   2. 
      Trepidation of the spheres
      
   3. 
      Eyes, lips and hands
      
   4. 
      Gold to airy thinness beat
      
   5. 
      The fixed foot (of a compass)
      

4. 
   The subject of the poem is
   
   1. 
      Death
      
   2. 
      True lovers parting
      
   3. 
      A compass
      
   4. 
      The nature of the earth
      
   5. 
      A journey
      

5. 
   The tone of the poem is
   
   1. 
      Sanguine
      
   2. 
      Paradoxical
      
   3. 
      Humorous
      
   4. 
      Melancholy
      
   5. 
      Sardonic
      

6. 
   The poems major conceit is
   
   1. 
      Lovers as a compass
      
   2. 
      Earthquakes and celestial movement
      
   3. 
      Virtuous men and death
      
   4. 
      Love as thin as gold
      
   5. 
      Virtuous men and love
      

7. 
   The phrase “laity of love” in line 8 refers to
   
   1. 
      Clergymen in love
      
   2. 
      Lovers who need physical sensation for their love
      
   3. 
      Lovers who can abide absences
      
   4. 
      Love remaining after death
      
   5. 
      Nonreligious people who worship love
      

8. 
   According to Donne, true love
   
   1. 
      Can tolerate separation
      
   2. 
      Belongs to the “laity of love”
      
   3. 
      Dies like virtuous men
      
   4. 
      Is the “trepidation of the spheres”
      
   5. 
      Is sublunary lovers’ love
      

9. 
   “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” is what kind of poem?
   
   1. 
      Ode
      
   2. 
      Sonnet
      
   3. 
      Narrative
      
   4. 
      Elegy
      
   5. 
      Lyric
      

10. 
    In the last stanza, the speaker talks of
    
    1. 
       Dying
       
    2. 
       Leaving his lover
       
    3. 
       Returning to his lover
       
    4. 
       Making a trip similar in route to a circle
       
    5. 
       Missing his lover