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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 tetrameter

Trochaic

Anapestic

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

Complete a crossword puzzle

Go out with friend

Work and get drunk

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 about religion

A poem set at night

A poem set in dawn or early morning

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

ABCB

ABAB

ABABCCDEED

ABBA
8 After whose death did Larkin resume writing "Aubade"?

His sister's

His girlfriend's

His mother's

His father'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?

Death

Romantic love

Religion

Isolation
11 What religion did Larkin follow?

Buddhism

None

Judaism

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

Teachers

Writers

Death

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

A librarian

A teacher

A policeman

A doctor
14 At what age did Larkin die?

55

63

72

47
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?

"intricate rented world"

"furnace-fear"

"whined at than withstood"

"to hold and horrify"
16 Where is the poem set?

The speaker's place of work

The speaker's bedroom

The speaker's friend's house

The speaker's school
17 What is an example of a simile?

"That vast moth-eaten musical brocade"

"Meanwhile telephones crouch"

"Postmen like doctors go from house to house"

"An only life can take so long to climb/Clear of its wrong beginnings"
18 Which word best describes the tone of the poem?

Romantic

Gloomy

Playful

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

He believes in rationalism, but not religion

He objects to both

He's comforted by both

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

Courage

Happiness

Confidence

Anxiety
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?

Alliteration

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

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

Gray

Blue

Pink

White
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?

10 am

6 am

8 am

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

"Of dying, and being dead"

"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"

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