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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?
1989

1985

1977

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

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

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

Go out with friend

Complete a crossword puzzle

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

Making his loved ones sad

Feeling nothing

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?
ABAB

ABBA

ABCB

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

His father's

His girlfriend's

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

A type of clothing

A type of jewelry

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

Isolation

Death

Romantic love
11 What religion did Larkin follow?
Christianity

Buddhism

None

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

Death

Writers

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

A librarian

A doctor

A policeman
14 At what age did Larkin die?
47

63

55

72
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?
"whined at than withstood"

"furnace-fear"

"intricate rented world"

"to hold and horrify"
16 Where is the poem set?
The speaker's place of work

The speaker's friend's house

The speaker's bedroom

The speaker's school
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

Gloomy

Romantic

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

He believes in religion, but not rationalism

He's comforted by both

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

Anxiety

Confidence

Happiness
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?
Alliteration

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

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

Blue

Pink

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

Religion

Love

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

10 am

8 am

4 am
25 What line is NOT an example of iambic pentameter?
"And so it stays just on the edge of vision"

"Of dying, and being dead"

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

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

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