AP Literature MCQ #8

Q1 The Good Morrow allusion (No visible question text)

that the lovers were oblivious to the world around them

Which of the following best explains the function of the shift in line 5 from rhetorical questions to statements?

The speaker moves from idle speculation of the past to earnest declaration of the current state of their love.

Which of the following best paraphrases the speaker's argument in lines 10-11 ?

Lovers see a beauty in one another that seems sufficient to fill the world.

Q4 The Good Morrow conceit (No visible question text)

collectively accessible worlds and a private world shared by the lovers

In context, lines 15-16 ("My face . . . rest") most clearly serve to represent both

a literal reflection and a figurative union

How does the rhetorical question in lines 17-18 of the final stanza ("Where . . . West?") function in the poem as a whole?

It extends the geographical imagery of the second stanza.

The metaphor in lines 17-18 ("two better . . . West") suggests that the lovers' relationship

is more perfect than the natural world

Q8 The Death of Allegory juxtaposition (No Visible Question Text)

"capital letters" (line 4) and "lower case" (line 24)

Which of the following best describes the function of the conceit in "a thought in a coat" (line 7)?

It reinforces the speaker's celebration of how artists bestowed physical form on abstractions.

For the speaker, the condominiums in line 19 primarily symbolize

fashionable but shallow contemporary values

As used in line 24, the phrase "objects that sit quietly" emphasizes the speaker's point that objects like the binoculars and the money clip differ from allegorical figures because they lack a

deeper and immediately recognizable significance

How do the references to "ideas on horseback" and "long-haired virtues" (lines 27-28) fit into the overall structure of the poem?

They signal a return to the topic and imagery introduced in the opening stanza.

In the closing stanza, "the road" (line 30) functions as a symbol of the

finality with which allegorical figures have vanished from modern culture

In the first sentence of the second paragraph ("She was . . . piercing him"), the allusion to Saint Sebastian comments on Julian's character primarily by suggesting that Julian

holds an exaggerated sense of the importance of his problems

In the fourth paragraph ("She lifted . . . to town"), Julian's thoughts about the contrast presented by his mother's eyes suggest the presence of an overall contrast between her

apparent superficiality and an underlying astuteness

Q16 Everything that Rises Must Converge Rome allusion (No Visible Question Text)

contrast Julian's despair about finding financial success

For Julian's mother, the new hat represents

guilty extravagance

Q18 Everything that Rises Must Converge contrasts (No Visible Question Text)

Julian's silence amplifies his mother's garrulousness.