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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?
7

3

6

10
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?
1989

1985

1977

1972
3 What is the poem’s general meter?
Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic

Anapestic
4 What does the speaker do in the first line?
Go out with friend

Complete a crossword puzzle

Work and get drunk

Go to church
5 What worries the speaker most about death?
It coming randomly

Feeling nothing

Making his loved ones sad

The eternity of it
6 What is an aubade?
A poem about religion

A poem about death

A poem set at night

A poem set in dawn or early morning
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABAB

ABABCCDEED

ABCB

ABBA
8 After whose death did Larkin resume writing "Aubade"?
His girlfriend's

His sister's

His father's

His mother's
9 What is a brocade?
A type of clothing

A type of jewelry

A type of bag

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

Death

Romantic love

Religion
11 What religion did Larkin follow?
None

Christianity

Judaism

Buddhism
12 What is does Larkin compare postmen to in the last line?
Death

Writers

Doctors

Teachers
13 Besides being a writer, what did Larkin work as?
A policeman

A doctor

A teacher

A librarian
14 At what age did Larkin die?
55

47

72

63
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?
"to hold and horrify"

"whined at than withstood"

"intricate rented world"

"furnace-fear"
16 Where is the poem set?
The speaker's place of work

The speaker's school

The speaker's friend's house

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

"That vast moth-eaten musical brocade"

"Meanwhile telephones crouch"

"An only life can take so long to climb/Clear of its wrong beginnings"
18 Which word best describes the tone of the poem?
Joyful

Romantic

Gloomy

Playful
19 What describes the speaker's feelings about religion and rationalism?
He objects to both

He believes in religion, but not rationalism

He believes in rationalism, but not religion

He's comforted by both
20 To the speaker, what "means not scaring others"?
Courage

Happiness

Anxiety

Confidence
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?
Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

Metaphor

Simile
22 What color is the sky in the final verse?
White

Pink

Blue

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

Love

Death

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

6 am

4 am

8 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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