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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?

10

6

7

3
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?

1985

1972

1989

1977
3 What is the poem’s general meter?

Anapestic

Trochaic

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter
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?

The eternity of it

Feeling nothing

It coming randomly

Making his loved ones sad
6 What is an aubade?

A poem about religion

A poem about death

A poem set at night

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

ABABCCDEED

ABBA

ABCB

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

His father's

His mother'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

Romantic love

Isolation

Death
11 What religion did Larkin follow?

Judaism

None

Christianity

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

Doctors

Writers

Death

Teachers
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?

47

55

63

72
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?

"whined at than withstood"

"to hold and horrify"

"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?

"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"

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

Joyful

Playful

Romantic

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

He believes in rationalism, but not religion

He's comforted by both

He objects to both

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

Confidence

Anxiety

Courage

Happiness
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

Metaphor

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

Gray

Pink

Blue

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

Religion

Death

Love

Science
24 At what time does the speaker wake up?

10 am

6 am

4 am

8 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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