Eve to Her Daughters Quizzes

Eve to Her Daughters Quiz

1 When was this poem written?
1959

1967

1966

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

Psalms

The Book of Genesis

Epistle of James
3 Who were the biblical Adam and Eve?
The original humans

Children of Mary

Angels

Snakes
4 Who is Eve addressing?
Adam

Abel and Cain

All her children

Her daughters: modern women
5 Finish this line: "It was not I___"
who should be blamed

who endured

who began it

who started it
6 Which best describes Eve's tone in the poem?
Informal, ironic, logical

Aggressive, angry, contemptful

Relatable, wrathful, reflective

Ancient, divine, judgemental
7 What is the meter?
Ballad

Iambic pentameter

Free verse

Blank verse
8 Who cannot adapt to life on earth?
The children

Adam

Eve

The couple
9 Define "draughty."
Misbehaving

Warm and moist

A kind of laughter

Cold and uncomfortable
10 What does the phrase "not unhappy" suggest?
A double negative makes a positive; Eve is happy

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

Adam struggled to make their earthly life livable. The best he could do was feel "not unhappy"

Adam and Eve both struggled to adapt to life on earth
11 Why might the poem use little to no metaphor or simile?
Eve is a very direct and straightforward person.

Wright dislikes using metaphors.

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

Eve's depression prevents her from seeing the beauty of the world.
12 Define Adam's brand of logic.
Faults of character are the only real thing.

What cannot be demonstrated doesn’t exist.

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

Faults of character are demonstrable, and thus exist.
13 What is Eve's brand of logic?
Perhaps nothing exists but our faults.

Faults of character are not real.

Adam is faultless and worthy of following.

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

None

Both hers and his

Her own
15 What do the ellipses and exclamation mark suggest in the line "But Adam, you know ….. !"?
Eve is prepared to replace her husband.

Eve silently but strongly disagrees with Adam's behavior.

Eve will always follow her husband.

Eve feels passionately about her husband.
16 Who is "They" in the poem?
Adam and Eve

Divine figures

The other humans

Adam and Eve's children
17 What does Eve say when Adam complains about her cooking?
(it was hard to compete with Heaven).

I repent my ways,

Then you cook.

You can see how his pride had been hurt.
18 Which are examples of modern jargon that express the values in certain modern societies?
mechanical harvesters, combustion engines, escalators, refrigerators,

God and the Other

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

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19 Who is "the Other"?
God

Eve

Most likely Satan

Adam
20 What have Eve's daughters inherited?
Eve's rebellious nature

Eve's beauty

Eve's own faults of character

A propensity to speak up
21 What does Eve say that faults of character have?
Their own logic

A life of their own

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A destructive nature
22 Which best characterizes the line "I observed this with Abel and Cain"?
True and transparent.

None

Proud because Eve is their mother.

Ironic because their story ended in murder.
23 What is Eve's primary message to her daughters?
It was not I who began it.

Faults of character have their own logic

for the sake of the children, it’s time you took over

He has turned himself into God,
24 Which is an anaphora in the poem?
"You see, he..."

"But you are my daughters..."

"It was not I..."

"In the process..."
25 What does Eve say about Adam in the end?
He has turned himself into God, who is faultless, and doesn’t exist.

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

You see, he was always an egotist.

You see, he had always been jealous.

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