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

Psalms

Epistle of James

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

Angels

Snakes

Children of Mary
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 started it

who should be blamed

who endured

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

Aggressive, angry, contemptful

Ancient, divine, judgemental

Relatable, wrathful, reflective
7 What is the meter?
Ballad

Free verse

Blank verse

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

The couple

Eve

The children
9 Define "draughty."
Misbehaving

Cold and uncomfortable

A kind of laughter

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

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"

This double negative suggests hesitation and confusion, perhaps suggesting that Eve feels the opposite
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 demonstrated doesn’t exist.

Faults of character are demonstrable, and thus exist.

What cannot be physically demonstrated can still be believable through faith.
13 What is Eve's brand of logic?
Adam is faultless and worthy of following.

Faults of character are not real.

The same as Adam's.

Perhaps nothing exists but our faults.
14 Whose logic does Eve use to negate Adam in the final stanza?
None

His own

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's children

Adam and Eve

Divine figures

The other humans
17 What does Eve say when Adam complains about her cooking?
Then you cook.

I repent my ways,

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

multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education

God and the Other

mechanical harvesters, combustion engines, escalators, refrigerators,
19 Who is "the Other"?
Most likely Satan

God

Adam

Eve
20 What have Eve's daughters inherited?
Eve's own faults of character

A propensity to speak up

Eve's rebellious nature

Eve's beauty
21 What does Eve say that faults of character have?
Multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education

A life of their own

A destructive nature

Their own logic
22 Which best characterizes the line "I observed this with Abel and Cain"?
Proud because Eve is their mother.

Ironic because their story ended in murder.

True and transparent.

None
23 What is Eve's primary message to her daughters?
He has turned himself into God,

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
24 Which is an anaphora in the poem?
"But you are my daughters..."

"It was not I..."

"You see, he..."

"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.

You see, he had always been jealous.

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

You see, he was always an egotist.

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