Eve to Her Daughters Quizzes

Eve to Her Daughters Quiz

1 When was this poem written?
1966

1970

1959

1967
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?
Her daughters: modern women

Adam

Abel and Cain

All her children
5 Finish this line: "It was not I___"
who started it

who began it

who should be blamed

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

Informal, ironic, logical

Ancient, divine, judgemental

Aggressive, angry, contemptful
7 What is the meter?
Free verse

Ballad

Blank verse

Iambic pentameter
8 Who cannot adapt to life on earth?
Adam

The children

The couple

Eve
9 Define "draughty."
Cold and uncomfortable

Misbehaving

Warm and moist

A kind of laughter
10 What does the phrase "not unhappy" suggest?
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

A double negative makes a positive; Eve is happy
11 Why might the poem use little to no metaphor or simile?
Eve's depression prevents her from seeing the beauty of the world.

Wright dislikes using metaphors.

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

Eve is a very direct and straightforward person.
12 Define Adam's brand of logic.
Faults of character are demonstrable, and thus exist.

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.
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?
Both hers and his

None

Her own

His own
15 What do the ellipses and exclamation mark suggest in the line "But Adam, you know ….. !"?
Eve silently but strongly disagrees with Adam's behavior.

Eve will always follow her husband.

Eve is prepared to replace her husband.

Eve feels passionately about her husband.
16 Who is "They" in the poem?
The other humans

Adam and Eve's children

Adam and Eve

Divine figures
17 What does Eve say when Adam complains about her cooking?
(it was hard to compete with Heaven).

You can see how his pride had been hurt.

Then you cook.

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

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

multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education

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

Adam

Eve

Most likely Satan
20 What have Eve's daughters inherited?
A propensity to speak up

Eve's own faults of character

Eve's beauty

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

Their own logic

Multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education

A destructive nature
22 Which best characterizes the line "I observed this with Abel and Cain"?
None

Proud because Eve is their mother.

True and transparent.

Ironic because their story ended in murder.
23 What is Eve's primary message to her daughters?
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,

It was not I who began it.
24 Which is an anaphora in the poem?
"In the process..."

"It was not I..."

"But you are my daughters..."

"You see, he..."
25 What does Eve say about Adam in the end?
You see, he had always been jealous.

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 was always an egotist.

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