Eve to Her Daughters Quizzes

Eve to Her Daughters Quiz

1 When was this poem written?

1966

1967

1970

1959
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?

Angels

Children of Mary

The original humans

Snakes
4 Who is Eve addressing?

Abel and Cain

Adam

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?

Aggressive, angry, contemptful

Informal, ironic, logical

Ancient, divine, judgemental

Relatable, wrathful, reflective
7 What is the meter?

Blank verse

Free verse

Ballad

Iambic pentameter
8 Who cannot adapt to life on earth?

Adam

The children

The couple

Eve
9 Define "draughty."

A kind of laughter

Warm and moist

Cold and uncomfortable

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?

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

Eve's depression prevents her from seeing the beauty of the world.

Eve is a very direct and straightforward person.

Wright dislikes using metaphors.
12 Define Adam's brand of logic.

Faults of character are the only real thing.

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

Faults of character are demonstrable, and thus exist.

What cannot be demonstrated doesn’t exist.
13 What is Eve's brand of logic?

Faults of character are not real.

The same as Adam's.

Perhaps nothing exists but our faults.

Adam is faultless and worthy of following.
14 Whose logic does Eve use to negate Adam in the final stanza?

His own

Both hers and his

Her own

None
15 What do the ellipses and exclamation mark suggest in the line "But Adam, you know ….. !"?

Eve feels passionately about her husband.

Eve is prepared to replace her husband.

Eve silently but strongly disagrees with Adam's behavior.

Eve will always follow her husband.
16 Who is "They" in the poem?

Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve's children

Divine figures

The other humans
17 What does Eve say when Adam complains about her cooking?

Then you cook.

(it was hard to compete with Heaven).

You can see how his pride had been hurt.

I repent my ways,
18 Which are examples of modern jargon that express the values in certain modern societies?

mechanical harvesters, combustion engines, escalators, refrigerators,

multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education

God and the Other

Yes, he got to the centre where nothing at all can be demonstrated.
19 Who is "the Other"?

Eve

Most likely Satan

Adam

God
20 What have Eve's daughters inherited?

Eve's own faults of character

Eve's rebellious nature

Eve's beauty

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

A destructive nature

A life of their own

Their own logic

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22 Which best characterizes the line "I observed this with Abel and Cain"?

True and transparent.

None

Ironic because their story ended in murder.

Proud because Eve is their mother.
23 What is Eve's primary message to her daughters?

Faults of character have their own logic

He has turned himself into God,

It was not I who began it.

for the sake of the children, it’s time you took over
24 Which is an anaphora in the poem?

"You see, he..."

"In the process..."

"But you are my daughters..."

"It was not I..."
25 What does Eve say about Adam in the end?

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

You see, he was always an egotist.

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

You see, he had always been jealous.

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