Adam’s Curse Quizzes

Adam's Curse Quiz

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

Gleeful

Regretful

Aloof
2 What does "thereupon" mean?
Supposedly

Right after

Therefore

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

The parables of Jesus

The Book of Genesis

Irish folklore
4 How is the addressee's friend characterized?
As fiery and opinionated

As beautiful and kind

As clever and critical

As sluggish and weary
5 What does the word "precedents" mean?
People in charge of institutions

Underlying principles

Comforting narratives

Prior examples
6 What is the poem's stanzaic arrangement?
It consists of twenty couplets

It consists of a longer, 27-line stanza, a sestet, and a quatrain

It consists of a single forty-line stanza

It consists of two fourteen-line sonnets in a row
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?
ABABCDCD

It does not follow a consistent rhyme scheme

ABBACDDCEFFE

AABBCCDD
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

Dactylic trimeter

Iambic pentameter
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 love the addressee in a lofty, effortful way

To return to prelapsarian paradise
12 In which poetry collection did this first appear?
The Tower

The Winding Stair

In the Seven Woods

The Wanderings of Oisin
13 What does the word "pauper" mean?
A person who works in a kitchen

A poor person

A very old person

A poet
14 What does the word "idler" mean?
A sick person

A lazy person

A member of the clergy

An artist
15 When was this poem published?
1914

1900

1903

1921
16 When does the work take place?
Early spring

Christmas afternoon

The middle of the night

A summer evening
17 What does the word "high," as used in this poem, mean?
Wealthy

Elevated

Physically far from the ground

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 writing poetry

The art of reading the Bible
19 The line "I had a thought for no one’s but your ears" contains which device?
Synecdoche

Understatement

Personification

Metonymy
20 What does Yeats compare the fading daylight to?
Coins in a pocket

A dream that has been forgotten

The embers of a fire

Drops of water from a fountain
21 Which character does not speak out loud in this poem?
The addressee

The friend

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 expresses skepticism about biblical stories

It is a sonnet

It switches speakers several times

It is written in the second person
24 Which of the following is not described as a casualty or victim of Adam's curse?
Childhood

Love

Physical beauty

Poetry
25 What does the moon symbolize?
The omnipresence of the divine

The light and redemption found in dark times

The eternal beauty of nature

The speaker's cynicism about love

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