Adam’s Curse Quizzes

Adam's Curse Quiz

1 Which of the following best describes the poem's tone?
Aggressive

Aloof

Regretful

Gleeful
2 What does "thereupon" mean?
Supposedly

Therefore

Right after

On top of
3 What is the poem's central allusion?
Paradise Lost

The Book of Genesis

Irish folklore

The parables of Jesus
4 How is the addressee's friend characterized?
As sluggish and weary

As clever and critical

As fiery and opinionated

As beautiful and kind
5 What does the word "precedents" mean?
Prior examples

People in charge of institutions

Underlying principles

Comforting narratives
6 What is the poem's stanzaic arrangement?
It consists of a longer, 27-line stanza, a sestet, and a quatrain

It consists of two fourteen-line sonnets in a row

It consists of a single forty-line stanza

It consists of twenty couplets
7 The poem's addressee is probably based on whom?
Augusta Gregory

W.B. Yeats

Georgiana Hyde-Lees

Maud Gonne
8 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
AABBCCDD

ABBACDDCEFFE

It does not follow a consistent rhyme scheme

ABABCDCD
9 Which of the following appears to be true of the speaker?
The speaker is a banker

The speaker is a poet

The speaker is a soldier

The speaker is a mother
10 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic hexameter

Trochaic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic trimeter
11 Which of the following does the speaker want?
To be recognized as a hardworking poet and lover

To become a banker or schoolteacher

To return to prelapsarian paradise

To love the addressee in a lofty, effortful way
12 In which poetry collection did this first appear?
The Winding Stair

The Tower

The Wanderings of Oisin

In the Seven Woods
13 What does the word "pauper" mean?
A poor person

A very old person

A poet

A person who works in a kitchen
14 What does the word "idler" mean?
An artist

A lazy person

A sick person

A member of the clergy
15 When was this poem published?
1900

1914

1921

1903
16 When does the work take place?
A summer evening

Early spring

Christmas afternoon

The middle of the night
17 What does the word "high," as used in this poem, mean?
Wealthy

Physically far from the ground

Elevated

Intoxicated
18 Which of the following, according to the poem, is not taught in schools?
The art of following norms of feminine beauty

The art of understanding nature

The art of reading the Bible

The art of writing poetry
19 The line "I had a thought for no one’s but your ears" contains which device?
Understatement

Synecdoche

Personification

Metonymy
20 What does Yeats compare the fading daylight to?
Drops of water from a fountain

Coins in a pocket

A dream that has been forgotten

The embers of a fire
21 Which character does not speak out loud in this poem?
The friend

The addressee

The speaker

All of the above—the characters sit in silent reflection
22 The speaker compares poetry to which of the following?
Hunting

Childbearing

Farming

Sewing
23 Which of the following is true of the poem?
It is written in the second person

It expresses skepticism about biblical stories

It switches speakers several times

It is a sonnet
24 Which of the following is not described as a casualty or victim of Adam's curse?
Physical beauty

Love

Poetry

Childhood
25 What does the moon symbolize?
The light and redemption found in dark times

The speaker's cynicism about love

The omnipresence of the divine

The eternal beauty of nature

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