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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?
3

7

10

6
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?
1985

1989

1972

1977
3 What is the poem’s general meter?
Iambic pentameter

Anapestic

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic
4 What does the speaker do in the first line?
Work and get drunk

Complete a crossword puzzle

Go out with friend

Go to church
5 What worries the speaker most about death?
The eternity of it

It coming randomly

Feeling nothing

Making his loved ones sad
6 What is an aubade?
A poem about death

A poem about religion

A poem set in dawn or early morning

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

ABBA

ABAB

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

His mother's

His sister's

His father's
9 What is a brocade?
A type of fabric

A type of clothing

A type of bag

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

Romantic love

Death

Religion
11 What religion did Larkin follow?
Christianity

Buddhism

Judaism

None
12 What is does Larkin compare postmen to in the last line?
Writers

Death

Doctors

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

A doctor

A librarian

A policeman
14 At what age did Larkin die?
63

72

47

55
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?
"whined at than withstood"

"to hold and horrify"

"intricate rented world"

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

The speaker's place of work

The speaker's bedroom

The speaker's school
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"

"That vast moth-eaten musical brocade"

"Meanwhile telephones crouch"
18 Which word best describes the tone of the poem?
Gloomy

Romantic

Playful

Joyful
19 What describes the speaker's feelings about religion and rationalism?
He believes in rationalism, but not religion

He objects to both

He's comforted by both

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

Courage

Happiness

Confidence
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?
Metaphor

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

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

White

Blue

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

Religion

Science

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

10 am

6 am

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

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

"Of dying, and being dead"

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

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