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Cozy Apologia Quiz

1 Which of the following is likely Fred's relationship to the speaker?
Her imaginary hero

Her brother

A hurricane that she remembers

Her romantic partner
2 This poem is a sonnet.
False

True
3 Where is the speaker?
Upon a horse

Her office in her house

An office away from her home

A mythical field
4 What embarrasses the speaker?
Her love of fantasy novels

Her inability to focus on her work

Her past relationships with a string of unmemorable boys

Her contentment despite a lack of excitement in her relationship
5 Who is Floyd?
A hurricane

A mischievous boy the speaker remembers from her youth

The speaker's self-proclaimed enemy

The speaker's partner
6 Which of the following are the hallmarks of the "post-postmodern age" that the speaker mentions?
Compact discs and faxes

Melancholy and boredom

One evening

A return to medieval tropes and rhyming poems
7 Who are Marcel, Percy, and Dewy?
The speaker's ex-boyfriends from her youth

The speaker's three brothers

The last hurricanes the speaker remembers enduring

The speaker's three children
8 Who is the "you" in this poem?
The speaker's partner

The reader

The speaker's unborn child

The speaker herself
9 The tone of this poem is best described by which of the following words?
Self-deprecating and tired

Thoughtful and nostalgic

Confessional and sarcastic

Sorrowful and restrained
10 Who in this poem is "cussing up a storm"?
Fred

Hurricane Floyd

The speaker

Percy
11 This poem uses rhyme.
False

True
12 How does the speaker feel about the scene first described where a hero rescues a damsel?
She feels disappointed by her real-life relationships for not living up to the ideals she had as a teenager

She feels that the scene is more romantic and dramatic than the actual experience of her relationship

She feels that the scene is archaic and misogynistic

She feels that the relationships in the romance genre are usually shallow
13 Why does the speaker list the objects "This lamp, the wind-still rain, the glossy blue/My pen exudes"?
The speaker wants to be free of her tangible belongings

The speaker feels like she is having an out-of-body experience and feels closer to these objects than she does to herself

The speaker feels very attached to the belongings she keeps in her office

The speaker describes how these mundane objects could relate back to her partner in her head
14 This poem is in part an apology to the speaker's partner.

False

True
15 This poem is in iambic pentameter.
True

False
16 Whom or what does the speaker call "Oddly male" in this poem?
Her partner

Her computer and fax machine

Hurricane Floyd

Percy
17 This poem directly addresses a specific person.
False

True
18 What does the speaker refer to as "do-it-now-and-take-no-risks/event" in this poem?
The speaker's occupation

The hurricane

The speaker's honeymoon

The post-postmodern age
19 What part does candy play in this poem?
The speaker describes how even simple candy reminds her of her partner

The speaker is considering the nature of vice in her everyday life

The speaker uses it as a metaphor to describe some of her past relationships

The speaker sees candy as a symbol of the love in her relationship
20 What is "the ordinary" that the speaker refers to in the poem?
An unattainable ideal for the speaker's relationships

The speaker's relationship

The objects in the office

The speaker's old life
21 This poem means to shine light on many of the speaker's past relationships as well as her present one.

False

True
22 This poem includes a dedication.
False

True
23 What "falls short of Divine" in this poem?
The speaker's past relationships

The speaker's religious inclinations

The speaker's current relationship

The speaker's relationship to her writing
24 This person is told in first and second person.
False

True
25 Which of the following things are not used as a simile or metaphor in this poem?
Aeries (large bird nests)

The computers

The licorice

Hurricane Floyd

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