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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?
10

7

3

6
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?
1977

1989

1985

1972
3 What is the poem’s general meter?
Anapestic

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic
4 What does the speaker do in the first line?
Go to church

Complete a crossword puzzle

Work and get drunk

Go out with friend
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 death

A poem about religion

A poem set at night

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

ABABCCDEED

ABBA

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

His sister's

His girlfriend's

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

A type of fabric

A type of jewelry

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

Death

Isolation

Religion
11 What religion did Larkin follow?
Judaism

Christianity

Buddhism

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

Teachers

Doctors

Writers
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?
63

72

47

55
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?
"intricate rented world"

"to hold and horrify"

"furnace-fear"

"whined at than withstood"
16 Where is the poem set?
The speaker's friend's house

The speaker's place of work

The speaker's school

The speaker's bedroom
17 What is an example of a simile?
"That vast moth-eaten musical brocade"

"Postmen like doctors go from house to house"

"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 believes in religion, but not rationalism

He objects to both

He believes in rationalism, but not religion

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

Confidence

Anxiety

Happiness
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?
Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor

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

Blue

Gray

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

Science

Love

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

8 am

4 am

10 am
25 What line is NOT an example of iambic pentameter?
"The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse"

"Of dying, and being dead"

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

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

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