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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?
3

6

10

7
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?
1977

1972

1989

1985
3 What is the poem’s general meter?
Anapestic

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic

Iambic pentameter
4 What does the speaker do in the first line?
Go to church

Work and get drunk

Go out with friend

Complete a crossword puzzle
5 What worries the speaker most about death?
Making his loved ones sad

The eternity of it

Feeling nothing

It coming randomly
6 What is an aubade?
A poem set at night

A poem about death

A poem set in dawn or early morning

A poem about religion
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABABCCDEED

ABCB

ABBA

ABAB
8 After whose death did Larkin resume writing "Aubade"?
His sister's

His mother's

His father's

His girlfriend's
9 What is a brocade?
A type of jewelry

A type of bag

A type of clothing

A type of fabric
10 What is NOT a theme of Aubade?
Isolation

Religion

Death

Romantic love
11 What religion did Larkin follow?
Buddhism

Christianity

None

Judaism
12 What is does Larkin compare postmen to in the last line?
Doctors

Teachers

Writers

Death
13 Besides being a writer, what did Larkin work as?
A doctor

A teacher

A librarian

A policeman
14 At what age did Larkin die?
47

55

72

63
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?
"intricate rented world"

"furnace-fear"

"to hold and horrify"

"whined at than withstood"
16 Where is the poem set?
The speaker's school

The speaker's friend's house

The speaker's place of work

The speaker's bedroom
17 What is an example of a simile?
"Postmen like doctors go from house to house"

"An only life can take so long to climb/Clear of its wrong beginnings"

"Meanwhile telephones crouch"

"That vast moth-eaten musical brocade"
18 Which word best describes the tone of the poem?
Playful

Romantic

Joyful

Gloomy
19 What describes the speaker's feelings about religion and rationalism?
He's comforted by both

He believes in religion, but not rationalism

He objects to both

He believes in rationalism, but not religion
20 To the speaker, what "means not scaring others"?
Confidence

Courage

Anxiety

Happiness
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?
Metaphor

Simile

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration
22 What color is the sky in the final verse?
Gray

Pink

Blue

White
23 What does the speaker describe as a "vast moth-eaten musical brocade"?
Love

Death

Religion

Science
24 At what time does the speaker wake up?
8 am

6 am

10 am

4 am
25 What line is NOT an example of iambic pentameter?
"Can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing"

"Of dying, and being dead"

"The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse"

"And so it stays just on the edge of vision"

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