Eve to Her Daughters Quizzes

Eve to Her Daughters Quiz

1 When was this poem written?
1970

1967

1959

1966
2 Where does the character of Eve come from?
Epistle of James

Song of Songs

Psalms

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

Children of Mary

The original humans

Angels
4 Who is Eve addressing?
Adam

Her daughters: modern women

All her children

Abel and Cain
5 Finish this line: "It was not I___"
who began it

who endured

who should be blamed

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

Ancient, divine, judgemental

Aggressive, angry, contemptful

Informal, ironic, logical
7 What is the meter?
Blank verse

Ballad

Free verse

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

The children

The couple

Eve
9 Define "draughty."
A kind of laughter

Cold and uncomfortable

Misbehaving

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

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

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

A double negative makes a positive; Eve is happy
11 Why might the poem use little to no metaphor or simile?
Eve is a very direct and straightforward person.

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

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

Wright dislikes using metaphors.
12 Define Adam's brand of logic.
Faults of character are the only real thing.

Faults of character are demonstrable, and thus exist.

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

What cannot be demonstrated doesn’t exist.
13 What is Eve's brand of logic?
Perhaps nothing exists but our faults.

The same as Adam's.

Adam is faultless and worthy of following.

Faults of character are not real.
14 Whose logic does Eve use to negate Adam in the final stanza?
His own

Her own

None

Both hers and his
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 feels passionately about her husband.

Eve is prepared to replace her husband.
16 Who is "They" in the poem?
The other humans

Adam and Eve's children

Divine figures

Adam and Eve
17 What does Eve say when Adam complains about her cooking?
You can see how his pride had been hurt.

I repent my ways,

(it was hard to compete with Heaven).

Then you cook.
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

Adam

God

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

Eve's beauty

Eve's own faults of character

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"?
Ironic because their story ended in murder.

Proud because Eve is their mother.

None

True and transparent.
23 What is Eve's primary message to her daughters?
It was not I who began it.

He has turned himself into God,

Faults of character have their own logic

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

"You see, he..."

"It was not I..."

"But you are my daughters..."
25 What does Eve say about Adam in the end?
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.

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

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