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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?
7

10

6

3
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?
1972

1977

1985

1989
3 What is the poem’s general meter?
Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic

Anapestic

Iambic pentameter
4 What does the speaker do in the first line?
Complete a crossword puzzle

Work and get drunk

Go out with friend

Go to church
5 What worries the speaker most about death?
Feeling nothing

Making his loved ones sad

The eternity of it

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

ABBA

ABAB

ABCB
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 fabric

A type of clothing

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

Death

Romantic love

Religion
11 What religion did Larkin follow?
None

Buddhism

Judaism

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

Doctors

Death

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

A doctor

A librarian

A teacher
14 At what age did Larkin die?
55

47

63

72
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?
"furnace-fear"

"whined at than withstood"

"to hold and horrify"

"intricate rented world"
16 Where is the poem set?
The speaker's bedroom

The speaker's friend's house

The speaker's school

The speaker's place of work
17 What is an example of a simile?
"An only life can take so long to climb/Clear of its wrong beginnings"

"Postmen like doctors go from house to house"

"Meanwhile telephones crouch"

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

Joyful

Playful

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

He believes in religion, but not rationalism

He's comforted by both

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

Courage

Anxiety

Confidence
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?
Onomatopoeia

Simile

Alliteration

Metaphor
22 What color is the sky in the final verse?
Pink

Gray

White

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

Love

Death

Religion
24 At what time does the speaker wake up?
4 am

8 am

10 am

6 am
25 What line is NOT an example of iambic pentameter?
"Of dying, and being dead"

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

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

"Can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing"

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