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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?
10

6

3

7
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?
1985

1972

1989

1977
3 What is the poem’s general meter?
Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic

Anapestic
4 What does the speaker do in the first line?
Go to church

Work and get drunk

Complete a crossword puzzle

Go out with friend
5 What worries the speaker most about death?
Making his loved ones sad

It coming randomly

Feeling nothing

The eternity of it
6 What is an aubade?
A poem set in dawn or early morning

A poem set at night

A poem about religion

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

ABCB

ABAB

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

His sister's

His father's

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

A type of jewelry

A type of fabric

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

Death

Religion

Isolation
11 What religion did Larkin follow?
None

Judaism

Buddhism

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

Teachers

Writers

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

A librarian

A policeman

A teacher
14 At what age did Larkin die?
47

63

72

55
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?
"furnace-fear"

"to hold and horrify"

"intricate rented world"

"whined at than withstood"
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"

"An only life can take so long to climb/Clear of its wrong beginnings"

"Postmen like doctors go from house to house"

"Meanwhile telephones crouch"
18 Which word best describes the tone of the poem?
Romantic

Playful

Gloomy

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

He objects to both

He believes in religion, but not rationalism

He's comforted by both
20 To the speaker, what "means not scaring others"?
Anxiety

Courage

Confidence

Happiness
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?
Onomatopoeia

Metaphor

Simile

Alliteration
22 What color is the sky in the final verse?
Pink

White

Gray

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

Love

Religion

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

4 am

10 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"

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

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

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