Cozy Apologia Quizzes

Cozy Apologia Quiz

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

Her imaginary hero

A hurricane that she remembers

Her romantic partner
2 This poem is a sonnet.
False

True
3 Where is the speaker?
Her office in her house

A mythical field

Upon a horse

An office away from her home
4 What embarrasses the speaker?
Her inability to focus on her work

Her love of fantasy novels

Her contentment despite a lack of excitement in her relationship

Her past relationships with a string of unmemorable boys
5 Who is Floyd?
The speaker's partner

The speaker's self-proclaimed enemy

A mischievous boy the speaker remembers from her youth

A hurricane
6 Which of the following are the hallmarks of the "post-postmodern age" that the speaker mentions?
A return to medieval tropes and rhyming poems

Melancholy and boredom

Compact discs and faxes

One evening
7 Who are Marcel, Percy, and Dewy?
The speaker's ex-boyfriends from her youth

The speaker's three children

The speaker's three brothers

The last hurricanes the speaker remembers enduring
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?
Thoughtful and nostalgic

Sorrowful and restrained

Self-deprecating and tired

Confessional and sarcastic
10 Who in this poem is "cussing up a storm"?
Hurricane Floyd

Percy

Fred

The speaker
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 that the relationships in the romance genre are usually shallow

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
13 Why does the speaker list the objects "This lamp, the wind-still rain, the glossy blue/My pen exudes"?
The speaker describes how these mundane objects could relate back to her partner in her head

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

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 wants to be free of her tangible belongings
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 computer and fax machine

Her partner

Percy

Hurricane Floyd
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 speaker's honeymoon

The hurricane

The post-postmodern age
19 What part does candy play in this poem?
The speaker sees candy as a symbol of the love in her relationship

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
20 What is "the ordinary" that the speaker refers to in the poem?
The objects in the office

The speaker's relationship

The speaker's old life

An unattainable ideal for the speaker's relationships
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.
True

False
23 What "falls short of Divine" in this poem?
The speaker's religious inclinations

The speaker's past relationships

The speaker's relationship to her writing

The speaker's current relationship
24 This person is told in first and second person.

True

False
25 Which of the following things are not used as a simile or metaphor in this poem?
The computers

Hurricane Floyd

Aeries (large bird nests)

The licorice

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