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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?

3

7

6

10
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?

1985

1977

1972

1989
3 What is the poem’s general meter?

Anapestic

Trochaic

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter
4 What does the speaker do in the first line?

Complete a crossword puzzle

Go out with friend

Go to church

Work and get drunk
5 What worries the speaker most about death?

Feeling nothing

It coming randomly

The eternity of it

Making his loved ones sad
6 What is an aubade?

A poem about death

A poem set at night

A poem about religion

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

ABABCCDEED

ABAB

ABCB

ABBA
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 bag

A type of fabric

A type of clothing

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

Religion

Romantic love

Death

Isolation
11 What religion did Larkin follow?

Buddhism

None

Christianity

Judaism
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 doctor

A policeman

A teacher
14 At what age did Larkin die?

72

63

47

55
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?

"to hold and horrify"

"whined at than withstood"

"intricate rented world"

"furnace-fear"
16 Where is the poem set?

The speaker's friend's house

The speaker's school

The speaker's bedroom

The speaker's place of work
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

Playful

Gloomy

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

He's comforted by both

He objects to both

He believes in religion, but not rationalism

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

Courage

Confidence

Happiness

Anxiety
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?

Onomatopoeia

Simile

Metaphor

Alliteration
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"?

Love

Religion

Death

Science
24 At what time does the speaker wake up?

10 am

8 am

6 am

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

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

"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"

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