Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
Comprehension
The questions below refer to the selection “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.”
____ 1. In plain English the title “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” means —
|a. |a graduation speech commending the senior class |
|b. |a greeting to a person who had been thought missing |
|c. |a vow never to fall in love again |
|d. |a farewell urging the listener not to be sad |
____ 2. The scene described in the first stanza is —
|a. |a childbirth |c. |lovemaking |
|b. |a wedding |d. |a deathbed |
____ 3. Lines 7–8, “’Twere profanation of our joys / To tell the laity our love,” mean —
|a. |our love is profane but confessing it would absolve us |
|b. |we are the only happy people in a society of miserable souls |
|c. |our love is so sacred that we should not speak of it to others |
|d. |mere physical love is very different from true spiritual love |
____ 4. What phrase does the speaker use to describe the opposite of his and his wife’s love?
|a. |“Dull sublunary lovers’ love . . .” |
|b. |“a love, so much