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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?
7

10

3

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

1989

1972

1985
3 What is the poem’s general meter?
Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Anapestic

Trochaic
4 What does the speaker do in the first line?
Go out with friend

Work and get drunk

Complete a crossword puzzle

Go to church
5 What worries the speaker most about death?
Making his loved ones sad

It coming randomly

The eternity of it

Feeling nothing
6 What is an aubade?
A poem set at night

A poem set in dawn or early morning

A poem about death

A poem about religion
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBA

ABABCCDEED

ABAB

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

His girlfriend's

His mother's

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

A type of bag

A type of fabric

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

Isolation

Religion

Romantic love
11 What religion did Larkin follow?
Buddhism

Judaism

None

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

Teachers

Doctors

Death
13 Besides being a writer, what did Larkin work as?
A librarian

A teacher

A doctor

A policeman
14 At what age did Larkin die?
72

63

55

47
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 friend's house

The speaker's bedroom

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"

"Meanwhile telephones crouch"

"Postmen like doctors go from house to house"

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

Gloomy

Romantic

Joyful
19 What describes the speaker's feelings about religion and rationalism?
He's comforted by both

He believes in rationalism, but not religion

He objects to both

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

Happiness

Courage

Anxiety
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?
Metaphor

Alliteration

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"?
Love

Religion

Science

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

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

"Of dying, and being dead"

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

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