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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?
10

7

6

3
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?
1985

1989

1972

1977
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 out with friend

Complete a crossword puzzle

Work and get drunk

Go to church
5 What worries the speaker most about death?
Making his loved ones sad

Feeling nothing

The eternity of it

It coming randomly
6 What is an aubade?
A poem about religion

A poem set in dawn or early morning

A poem about death

A poem set at night
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABCB

ABABCCDEED

ABAB

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

His sister's

His mother's

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

A type of clothing

A type of bag

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

Isolation

Romantic love

Death
11 What religion did Larkin follow?
None

Judaism

Buddhism

Christianity
12 What is does Larkin compare postmen to in the last line?
Teachers

Doctors

Writers

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

A policeman

A teacher

A doctor
14 At what age did Larkin die?
55

72

47

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

"whined at than withstood"

"to hold and horrify"

"furnace-fear"
16 Where is the poem set?
The speaker's friend's house

The speaker's bedroom

The speaker's place of work

The speaker's school
17 What is an example of a simile?
"Meanwhile telephones crouch"

"Postmen like doctors go from house to house"

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

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

Joyful

Romantic

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

He objects to both

He believes in religion, but not rationalism

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

Courage

Confidence

Happiness
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?
Simile

Metaphor

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"?
Religion

Love

Science

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

6 am

4 am

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

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

"Of dying, and being dead"

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

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