Eve to Her Daughters Quizzes

Eve to Her Daughters Quiz

1 When was this poem written?
1967

1966

1959

1970
2 Where does the character of Eve come from?
Epistle of James

Song of Songs

The Book of Genesis

Psalms
3 Who were the biblical Adam and Eve?
Children of Mary

Snakes

The original humans

Angels
4 Who is Eve addressing?
All her children

Adam

Her daughters: modern women

Abel and Cain
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?
Aggressive, angry, contemptful

Informal, ironic, logical

Ancient, divine, judgemental

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

Iambic pentameter

Free verse

Blank verse
8 Who cannot adapt to life on earth?
Adam

Eve

The children

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

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

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?
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.

Eve is a very direct and straightforward person.
12 Define Adam's brand of logic.
What cannot be physically demonstrated can still be believable through faith.

What cannot be demonstrated doesn’t exist.

Faults of character are demonstrable, and thus exist.

Faults of character are the only real thing.
13 What is Eve's brand of logic?
Adam is faultless and worthy of following.

The same as Adam's.

Perhaps nothing exists but our faults.

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 will always follow her husband.

Eve feels passionately about her husband.

Eve is prepared to replace her husband.

Eve silently but strongly disagrees with Adam's behavior.
16 Who is "They" in the poem?
Adam and Eve

Divine figures

Adam and Eve's children

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

Then you cook.

(it was hard to compete with Heaven).

I repent my ways,
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.

God and the Other

multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education

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

Eve

Adam

God
20 What have Eve's daughters inherited?
Eve's beauty

Eve's rebellious nature

Eve's own faults of character

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

Multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education

A destructive nature

Their own logic
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?
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

It was not I who began it.
24 Which is an anaphora in the poem?
"You see, he..."

"It was not I..."

"But you are my daughters..."

"In the process..."
25 What does Eve say about Adam in the end?
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.

You see, he had always been jealous.

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