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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?

10

3

7

6
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?

1989

1972

1985

1977
3 What is the poem’s general meter?

Trochaic

Iambic pentameter

Anapestic

Iambic tetrameter
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?

Making his loved ones sad

The eternity of it

It coming randomly

Feeling nothing
6 What is an aubade?

A poem set at night

A poem set in dawn or early morning

A poem about religion

A poem about death
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 mother's

His sister's

His girlfriend's
9 What is a brocade?

A type of bag

A type of jewelry

A type of fabric

A type of clothing
10 What is NOT a theme of Aubade?

Isolation

Romantic love

Religion

Death
11 What religion did Larkin follow?

None

Buddhism

Judaism

Christianity
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 teacher

A doctor

A policeman

A librarian
14 At what age did Larkin die?

63

72

55

47
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?

"intricate rented world"

"whined at than withstood"

"furnace-fear"

"to hold and horrify"
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

Gloomy

Playful

Romantic
19 What describes the speaker's feelings about religion and rationalism?

He believes in rationalism, but not religion

He's comforted by both

He believes in religion, but not rationalism

He objects to both
20 To the speaker, what "means not scaring others"?

Anxiety

Happiness

Courage

Confidence
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?

Alliteration

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

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

Blue

Gray

White

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

Death

Science

Religion

Love
24 At what time does the speaker wake up?

4 am

10 am

6 am

8 am
25 What line is NOT an example of iambic pentameter?

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

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

"Of dying, and being dead"

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

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