Eve to Her Daughters Quizzes

Eve to Her Daughters Quiz

1 When was this poem written?
1959

1967

1970

1966
2 Where does the character of Eve come from?
The Book of Genesis

Psalms

Song of Songs

Epistle of James
3 Who were the biblical Adam and Eve?
Snakes

The original humans

Angels

Children of Mary
4 Who is Eve addressing?
All her children

Her daughters: modern women

Abel and Cain

Adam
5 Finish this line: "It was not I___"
who began it

who started it

who endured

who should be blamed
6 Which best describes Eve's tone in the poem?
Ancient, divine, judgemental

Relatable, wrathful, reflective

Aggressive, angry, contemptful

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

Free verse

Ballad

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

The couple

Adam

The children
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

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

A double negative makes a positive; Eve is happy

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.

Wright dislikes using metaphors.

Eve is a very direct and straightforward person.

Eve's depression prevents her from seeing the beauty of the world.
12 Define Adam's brand of logic.
Faults of character are demonstrable, and thus exist.

What cannot be demonstrated doesn’t exist.

Faults of character are the only real thing.

What cannot be physically demonstrated can still be believable through faith.
13 What is Eve's brand of logic?
Faults of character are not real.

Perhaps nothing exists but our faults.

The same as Adam's.

Adam is faultless and worthy of following.
14 Whose logic does Eve use to negate Adam in the final stanza?
None

Both hers and his

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 feels passionately about her husband.

Eve is prepared to replace her husband.

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

Divine figures

Adam and Eve's children

Adam and Eve
17 What does Eve say when Adam complains about her cooking?
I repent my ways,

(it was hard to compete with Heaven).

You can see how his pride had been hurt.

Then you cook.
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

mechanical harvesters, combustion engines, escalators, refrigerators,

God and the Other
19 Who is "the Other"?
God

Adam

Most likely Satan

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

Eve's rebellious nature

Eve's beauty

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

Multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education

Their own logic

A life of their own
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?
"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?
You see, he was always an egotist.

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

You see, he had always been jealous.

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

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