Eve to Her Daughters Quizzes

Eve to Her Daughters Quiz

1 When was this poem written?
1966

1959

1967

1970
2 Where does the character of Eve come from?
Song of Songs

Epistle of James

Psalms

The Book of Genesis
3 Who were the biblical Adam and Eve?
Angels

Snakes

Children of Mary

The original humans
4 Who is Eve addressing?
Abel and Cain

Her daughters: modern women

All her children

Adam
5 Finish this line: "It was not I___"
who should be blamed

who started it

who endured

who began it
6 Which best describes Eve's tone in the poem?
Relatable, wrathful, reflective

Ancient, divine, judgemental

Informal, ironic, logical

Aggressive, angry, contemptful
7 What is the meter?
Iambic pentameter

Free verse

Blank verse

Ballad
8 Who cannot adapt to life on earth?
Adam

Eve

The children

The couple
9 Define "draughty."
Warm and moist

Cold and uncomfortable

A kind of laughter

Misbehaving
10 What does the phrase "not unhappy" suggest?
Adam and Eve both struggled to adapt to life on earth

This double negative suggests hesitation and confusion, perhaps suggesting that Eve feels the opposite

A double negative makes a positive; Eve is happy

Adam struggled to make their earthly life livable. The best he could do was feel "not unhappy"
11 Why might the poem use little to no metaphor or simile?
Wright dislikes using metaphors.

The language remains straightforward and gives an edge of modernity and irony.

Eve is a very direct and straightforward person.

Eve's depression prevents her from seeing the beauty of the world.
12 Define Adam's brand of logic.
What cannot be demonstrated doesn’t exist.

Faults of character are demonstrable, and thus exist.

What cannot be physically demonstrated can still be believable through faith.

Faults of character are the only real thing.
13 What is Eve's brand of logic?
Perhaps nothing exists but our faults.

Adam is faultless and worthy of following.

Faults of character are not real.

The same as Adam's.
14 Whose logic does Eve use to negate Adam in the final stanza?
Her own

His own

None

Both hers and his
15 What do the ellipses and exclamation mark suggest in the line "But Adam, you know ….. !"?
Eve feels passionately about her husband.

Eve silently but strongly disagrees with Adam's behavior.

Eve will always follow her husband.

Eve is prepared to replace her husband.
16 Who is "They" in the poem?
Adam and Eve's children

Divine figures

Adam and Eve

The other humans
17 What does Eve say when Adam complains about her cooking?
I repent my ways,

Then you cook.

You can see how his pride had been hurt.

(it was hard to compete with Heaven).
18 Which are examples of modern jargon that express the values in certain modern societies?
God and the Other

multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education

Yes, he got to the centre where nothing at all can be demonstrated.

mechanical harvesters, combustion engines, escalators, refrigerators,
19 Who is "the Other"?
Adam

Most likely Satan

Eve

God
20 What have Eve's daughters inherited?
Eve's beauty

Eve's rebellious nature

A propensity to speak up

Eve's own faults of character
21 What does Eve say that faults of character have?
A life of their own

A destructive nature

Multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education

Their own logic
22 Which best characterizes the line "I observed this with Abel and Cain"?
True and transparent.

Ironic because their story ended in murder.

Proud because Eve is their mother.

None
23 What is Eve's primary message to her daughters?
for the sake of the children, it’s time you took over

Faults of character have their own logic

It was not I who began it.

He has turned himself into God,
24 Which is an anaphora in the poem?
"But you are my daughters..."

"In the process..."

"It was not I..."

"You see, he..."
25 What does Eve say about Adam in the end?
You see, he was always an egotist.

That he realized his hubris and set to work fixing the problems on earth.

He has turned himself into God, who is faultless, and doesn’t exist.

You see, he had always been jealous.

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